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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)
Example of an encoded BMD measurements of left femur (id = "bmd")
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"><!-- BMD measurements of left femur encoded as an observation for example purposes. --><id value="bmd"/> <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> <b> Generated Narrative</b> </p> <div> <p> Resource "bmd" </p> </div> <p> <b> status</b> : final</p> <p> <b> code</b> : BMD - Left Femur <span> (<a> LOINC</a> #24701-5 "Femur DXA Bone density")</span> </p> <p> <b> subject</b> : <a> Patient/pat2</a> "Duck DONALD"</p> <p> <b> performer</b> : <a> Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f: Acme Imaging Diagnostics</a> "Clinical Lab"</p> <p> <b> value</b> : 0.887 g/cm²<span> (Details: UCUM code g/cm-2 = 'g/cm-2')</span> </p> <p> <b> bodySite</b> : Left Femur <span> (<a> SNOMED CT</a> #71341001:272741003=7771000)</span> </p> </div> </text> <status value="final"/> <code> <coding> <system value="http://loinc.org"/> <code value="24701-5"/> <display value="Femur DXA Bone density"/> </coding> <text value="BMD - Left Femur"/> </code> <subject> <reference value="Patient/pat2"/> </subject> <!-- well, actually. this isn't the patient, but it'll do for now --><performer> <reference value="Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f"/> <display value="Acme Imaging Diagnostics"/> </performer> <valueQuantity> <value value="0.887"/> <unit value="g/cm²"/> <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> <code value="g/cm-2"/> </valueQuantity> <bodySite> <coding> <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/> <code value="71341001:272741003=7771000"/> <!-- example of a post coordinated term --></coding> <text value="Left Femur"/> </bodySite> </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.