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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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Simple Body Length Example
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "body-length", "meta": { "profile": [ "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns" ] }, "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><div><p>Resource "body-length" </p><p>Profile: <a>Vital Signs Profile</a></p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Vital Signs <span> (<a>Observation Category Codes</a>#vital-signs)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: Body Length <span> (<a>LOINC</a>#8302-2 "Body height"; <a>LOINC</a>#8306-3 "Body height --lying")</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Patient/example</a> "Peter CHALMERS"</p><p><b>effective</b>: 1999-07-02</p><p><b>value</b>: 25 cm<span> (Details: UCUM code cm = 'cm')</span></p></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "vital-signs", "display": "Vital Signs" } ], "text": "Vital Signs" } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "8302-2", "display": "Body height" }, { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "8306-3", "display": "Body height --lying", "userSelected": true } ], "text": "Body Length" }, "subject": { "reference": "Patient/example" }, "effectiveDateTime": "1999-07-02", "valueQuantity": { "value": 25, "unit": "cm", "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org", "code": "cm" } }
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.