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Orders and Observations Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson |
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Example of a clinical gender observation. For a discussion on representing a patient's gender the Patient Resource.
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "clinical-gender", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p><b>id</b>: clinical-gender</p><p/><p><b>category</b>: <span>Social History</span></p><p><b>code</b>: <span>Gender identity</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Generated Summary: id: example; Medical record number: 12345 (USUAL); active; Peter James Chalmers (OFFICIAL), Jim , Peter James Windsor (MAIDEN); -unknown-(HOME), ph: (03) 5555 6473(WORK), ph: (03) 3410 5613(MOBILE), ph: (03) 5555 8834(OLD); gender: male; birthDate: 1974-12-25; </a></p><p><b>encounter</b>: <a>Generated Summary: id: example; status: in-progress; <span>inpatient encounter</span></a></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2018-02-01</p><p><b>performer</b>: <a>Generated Summary: id: example; id: 23; active; Adam Careful </a></p><p><b>value</b>: <span>Feminism in boy</span></p></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "social-history", "display": "Social History" } ] } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "76691-5", "display": "Gender identity" } ], "text": "Gender identity" }, "subject": { "reference": "Patient/example" }, "encounter": { "reference": "Encounter/example" }, "effectiveDateTime": "2018-02-01", "performer": [ { "reference": "Practitioner/example" } ], "valueCodeableConcept": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "191788006", "display": "Feminism in boy (finding)" } ], "text": "Feminism in boy" } }
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.