Release 5 Preview #3

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Observation-example-eye-color.xml

Orders and Observations Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Standards Status: Informative

Compartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

Raw XML (canonical form + also see XML Format Specification)

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Example of a very simple personal characteristic observation (id = "eye-color")

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="eye-color"/> 
  <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> <b> Generated Narrative</b> </p> <p> <b> id</b> : eye-color</p> <p/>  <p> <b> code</b> : <span> eye color</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> effective</b> : 2016-05-18</p> <p> <b> value</b> : blue</p> </div> </text> <status value="final"/> 
  <code> 
    <text value="eye color"/> 
  </code> 
  <subject> 
    <reference value="Patient/example"/> 
  </subject> 
  <effectiveDateTime value="2016-05-18"/> 
  <valueString value="blue"/> 
</Observation>

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.