Document containing information about a specialist consultation.

Identification information about the patient that has been referred and is the subject of this specialist letter.

The healthcare provider who is the source of this specialist letter.

Encounter between a subject of care and a health system.

The date and time when the specialist consultation took place.

The NEHTA OID for the document exchange scenario(s) - i.e. the type of document - represented by this Structured Document. This is a fixed value (1.2.36.1.2001.1001.101.100.16615) for all instances of a Specialist Letter composition. Type of document.

A healthcare provider (person or organisation) nominated by the subject of care as being primarily responsible for their ongoing healthcare.

The healthcare provider from whom the subject of care was referred to this specialist.

The date (and time if known) that the document author or document authoriser/approver confirms (usually by signature) that a document is complete and genuine.

A section that captures the main clinical outcome (diagnoses, procedures and narrative synopsis statement) about the response from the specialist following the referral.

Information about the subject of care problem or diagnosis as established by the specialist.

Identification of the problem or diagnosis.

A clinical activity carried out for therapeutic, evaluative, investigative, screening or diagnostic purposes.

The name of the procedure (to be) performed.

Date, and optionally time, of the Procedure action.

Information about a subject of care problem or diagnosis established by the specialist; or procedure performed on the subject of care by the specialist. The information not available/captured as structured data.

Short description, overview or summary of a clinical event and its reasons.

Information about a diagnosis and/or procedure as established/performed during or relevant to the specialist consultation not available as structured data.

Short description, overview or summary of a clinical event and its reasons.

A section that captures the recommendations by the referee/specialist to a recipient healthcare provider regarding the continuity of care and the ongoing management of the subject of care.

Recommendation by a clinician to a recipient health care provider regarding the management of the subject of care.

The intended recipient of the recommendation.

The time or time period for which the recommendation applies.

A textual narrative describing what the recommendation instruction is about.

An explicit statement that no recommendation was made.

A general statement about the absence or exclusion of data values.

A section that captures medication changes made and change recommendations regarding which medicines the subject of care should continue/commence/cease/alter relevant to and as a consequence of their interaction with the specialist.

Statement to positively assert that the patient has not been prescribed or is not taking certain medication.

The statement about the absence or exclusion of certain medication.

Information pertaining to one or more therapeutic goods that is represented to achieve, or is likely to achieve, its principal intended action by pharmacological, chemical, immunological or metabolic means in or on the body of a human.

The medicine, vaccine or other therapeutic good being ordered for, administered to or used by the subject of care.

A complete narrative description of how much, when and how to use the medicine, vaccine or other therapeutic good.

Reason for ordering the medicine, vaccine or other therapeutic good.

Any additional information that may be needed to ensure the continuity of supply, rationale for current dose and timing, or safe and appropriate use.

The way in which this instruction differs from the previous instruction.

Identifies whether the change has already been made or is a recommendation that has not been made.

Description of the change in the subject of care's medication item information.

The justification for the stated change in medication.

A textual narrative describing what the medication instruction is about.

The date and, optionally, time after which the Medication Instruction is no longer effective or in force.

Information about adverse reactions and/or propensity to adverse reaction of the subject of care (including allergies and intolerances), and any relevant reaction details.

A harmful or undesirable effect associated with exposure to any substance or agent.

Identification of a substance, agent, or a class of substance, that is considered to be responsible for the adverse reaction.

Details about each adverse reaction event.

Presentation or exhibition of signs and symptoms of the adverse reaction expressed as a single word, phrase or brief description.

Describes the diagnostic tests or procedures performed on or requested for the subject of care during the healthcare event, that are considered to be relevant to the subject of care’s ongoing care.

The result of a laboratory test which may be used to record a single valued test but will often be specialised or templated to represent multiple value or 'panel' tests.

Identification of the pathology test performed, sometimes including specimen type.

The diagnostic service that performs the examination.

Details about specimens to which this test result refers.

The type of specimen to be collected.

The method of collection to be used.

The anatomical site from where the specimen was taken.

Specific and identified anatomical location.

The name of the anatomical location.

The laterality of the anatomical location.

Description of the anatomical location.

An image or images used to identify a location.

Record of physical details, such as weight and dimensions, of a body part, device, lesion or specimen.

Property of a body – commonly, but inadequately, defined as the quantity of matter in it – to which its inertia is ascribed, and expressed as the weight of the body divided by the acceleration due to gravity.

The dimensions of the object.

Size, measure or amount of anything in three dimensions; space occupied by a body or substance measured in cubic units.

A description of other physical characteristics of the object.

A picture of the object.

Collection and handling requirements.

Any conditions to be met before the sample should be taken.

Workflow of specimen processing or handling.

The date and time that the collection has been ordered to take place or has taken place.

Identification of the setting at which the specimen was collected from a subject of care.

The date and time that the sample was received at the laboratory.

Sample identifications.

Unique identifier of the specimen, normally assigned by the laboratory.

Unique identifier of the parent specimen where the specimen is split into sub-samples.

Unique identifier given to the container in which the specimen is transported or processed.

The status of the pathology test result as a whole.

Description or summary of relevant, prior clinical information that may help in determining the test(s) to be performed, or interpreting the result when compiling or reading the report.

A group of results that form all or part of a recognisable pathology test.

The name of a group of pathology test results.

Specific detailed result of a pathology test, including both the value of the result item, and additional information that may be useful for clinical interpretation.

The name of an individual pathology test result.

Value of the result, with reference range information.

The actual value of the result.

One or more reference ranges applicable to the Individual Pathology Test Result Value .

An indication of the degree of diagnostically significant abnormality of the value, based on available clinical information (including but not limited to the reference range).

A named range to be associated with any quantity datum.

Term whose value indicates the meaning of this range.

The data range for the associated Reference Range Meaning data element .

Comments that may include statements about significant, unexpected or unreliable values, or information about the source of the value where this may be relevant to the interpretation of the result.

Additional advice on the applicability of the reference range.

The status of the result value.

Details about the individual specimen to which these result group test results refer, where testing of multiple specimens is required.

The type of specimen to be collected.

The method of collection to be used.

The anatomical site from where the specimen was taken.

Specific and identified anatomical location.

The name of the anatomical location.

The laterality of the anatomical location.

Description of the anatomical location.

An image or images used to identify a location.

Record of physical details, such as weight and dimensions, of a body part, device, lesion or specimen.

Property of a body – commonly, but inadequately, defined as the quantity of matter in it – to which its inertia is ascribed, and expressed as the weight of the body divided by the acceleration due to gravity.

The dimensions of the object.

Size, measure or amount of anything in three dimensions; space occupied by a body or substance measured in cubic units.

A description of other physical characteristics of the object.

A picture of the object.

Collection and handling requirements.

Any conditions to be met before the sample should be taken.

Workflow of specimen processing or handling.

The date and time that the collection has been ordered to take place or has taken place.

Identification of the setting at which the specimen was collected from a subject of care.

The date and time that the sample was received at the laboratory.

Sample identifications.

Unique identifier of the specimen, normally assigned by the laboratory.

Unique identifier of the parent specimen where the specimen is split into sub-samples.

Unique identifier given to the container in which the specimen is transported or processed.

Single word, phrase or brief description representing the diagnostic statement as asserted by the reporting pathologist.

Concise and clinically contextualised narrative interpretation of the pathology test results.

Rich text representation of the entire result as issued by the diagnostic service.

Additional narrative about the test that is not captured in other fields.

Details concerning a single requested pathology test.

Identification of the pathology test which was requested.

The identifier given to the laboratory test result of a pathology investigation.

Date, and optionally time, when an observation is clinically significant to the condition of the subject of the observation.

The result of an imaging examination which may be used to record a single valued test but will often be specialised or templated to represent multiple value or 'panel' tests.

Identification of the imaging examination or procedure performed, typically including modality and anatomical location (including laterality).

The imaging method used to perform the examination.

Details about the anatomical locations to which this examination result refers.

Specific and identified anatomical location.

The name of the anatomical location.

The laterality of the anatomical location.

Description of the anatomical location.

An image or images used to identify a location.

The status of the examination result as a whole.

Description of clinical information available at the time of interpretation of results, or a link to the original clinical information provided in the examination request.

Clinical assessment and opinion based on one or more observations and examinations.

A group of structured results.

The name of a group of structured results.

Specific detailed result of an imaging examination, including both the value of the result item and additional information that may be useful for clinical interpretation.

The name of a specific detailed result.

Value of the result, with reference range information.

The actual value of the result.

One or more reference ranges applicable to the Imaging Examination Result Value .

An indication of the degree of diagnostically significant abnormality of the value, based on available clinical information (including but not limited to the reference range).

A named range to be associated with any quantity datum.

Term whose value indicates the meaning of this range.

The data range for the associated Reference Range Meaning data element .

May include statements about significant, unexpected or unreliable values, or information about the source of the value where this may be relevant to the interpretation of the result.

Details about the individual anatomical location to which these result group examination results refer, where finer-grained representation of Anatomical Location is required.

Specific and identified anatomical location.

The name of the anatomical location.

The laterality of the anatomical location.

Description of the anatomical location.

An image or images used to identify a location.

Rich text representation of the entire result as issued by the diagnostic service.

Details concerning a single requested examination.

Identification of the imaging examination which was requested.

Unique identifier of this study allocated by the imaging service.

The local identifier given to the imaging examination report.

Images referenced or provided to assist clinical understanding of the examination.

Unique identifier of this image allocated by the imaging service.

Unique identifier of this series allocated by the imaging service.

The name of the imaging view.

Description of the subject of care's position when the imaging examination was performed.

Date, and optionally time, the imaging examination was performed.

An attached or referenced image of a current view.

Date, and optionally time, when an observation is clinically significant to the condition of the subject of the observation.

A request for a diagnostic investigation of the subject of care.

Describes the service arranged for, or provided to, the subject of care.

The date and, optionally, time at which the arranged service is scheduled to be provided to the subject of care.

The datetime or date range at or during which the arranged service is scheduled to be provided to the subject of care.

An indication of the booking status of the arranged service.

Describes the instructions, advice or information that has been given to the subject of care from a healthcare provider in relation to the requested service.

The provider (individual or organisation) that has been arranged to provide the service.

The point in time at which the Requested Service action is completed.