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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 an encoded BMD measurements of left femur
@prefix fhir: <http://hl7.org/fhir/> .
@prefix loinc: <http://loinc.org/rdf#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix sct: <http://snomed.info/id/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
# - resource -------------------------------------------------------------------
<http://hl7.org/fhir/Observation/bmd> a fhir:Observation;
  fhir:nodeRole fhir:treeRoot;
  fhir:Resource.id [ fhir:value "bmd"];
  fhir:DomainResource.text [
     fhir:Narrative.status [ fhir:value "generated" ];
     fhir:Narrative.div "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p/><p><b>code</b>: <span>BMD - Left Femur</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Generated Summary: Medical record number: 123456 (USUAL); active; Duck D Donald (OFFICIAL); gender: other</a></p><p><b>performer</b>: <a>Acme Imaging Diagnostics. Generated Summary: id: ClinLab; name: Clinical Lab; Phone: +1 555 234 1234, contact@labs.acme.org</a></p><p><b>value</b>: 0.887 g/cm²</p><p><b>bodySite</b>: <span>Left Femur</span></p></div>"
  ];
  fhir:Observation.status [ fhir:value "final"];
  fhir:Observation.code [
     fhir:CodeableConcept.coding [
       fhir:index 0;
       a loinc:24701-5;
       fhir:Coding.system [ fhir:value "http://loinc.org" ];
       fhir:Coding.code [ fhir:value "24701-5" ];
       fhir:Coding.display [ fhir:value "Femur DXA Bone density" ]
     ];
     fhir:CodeableConcept.text [ fhir:value "BMD - Left Femur" ]
  ];
  fhir:Observation.subject [
     fhir:link <http://hl7.org/fhir/Patient/pat2>;
     fhir:Reference.reference [ fhir:value "Patient/pat2" ]
  ];
  fhir:Observation.performer [
     fhir:index 0;
     fhir:link <http://hl7.org/fhir/Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f>;
     fhir:Reference.reference [ fhir:value "Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f" ];
     fhir:Reference.display [ fhir:value "Acme Imaging Diagnostics" ]
  ];
  fhir:Observation.valueQuantity [
     fhir:Quantity.value [ fhir:value "0.887"^^xsd:decimal ];
     fhir:Quantity.unit [ fhir:value "g/cm²" ];
     fhir:Quantity.system [ fhir:value "http://unitsofmeasure.org" ];
     fhir:Quantity.code [ fhir:value "g/cm-2" ]
  ];
  fhir:Observation.bodySite [
     fhir:CodeableConcept.coding [
       fhir:index 0;
       fhir:Coding.system [ fhir:value "http://snomed.info/sct" ];
       fhir:Coding.code [ fhir:value "71341001:272741003=7771000" ]
     ];
     fhir:CodeableConcept.text [ fhir:value "Left Femur" ]
  ] .
<http://hl7.org/fhir/Patient/pat2> a fhir:Patient .
<http://hl7.org/fhir/Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f> a fhir:Organization .
# - ontology header ------------------------------------------------------------
<http://hl7.org/fhir/Observation/bmd.ttl> a owl:Ontology;
  owl:imports fhir:fhir.ttl;
  owl:versionIRI <http://build.fhir.org/Observation/bmd.ttl> .
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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.