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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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An exam finding using pattern 3 described in the "Using Codes in Observation" Section
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "abdo-tender", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"abdo-tender\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation "abdo-tender" </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Exam <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-observation-category.html\">Observation Category Codes</a>#exam)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: Abdominal tenderness <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#43478001 "Abdominal tenderness (finding)")</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> "Peter CHALMERS"</p><p><b>encounter</b>: <a href=\"encounter-example.html\">Encounter/example</a></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2018-04-02T10:30:10+01:00 --> (ongoing)</p><p><b>issued</b>: 04/04/2018 12:30:10 AM</p><p><b>value</b>: true</p><p><b>interpretation</b>: Abnormal <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-v3-ObservationInterpretation.html\">ObservationInterpretation</a>#A)</span></p></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "exam", "display": "Exam" } ] } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "43478001", "display": "Abdominal tenderness (finding)" } ], "text": "Abdominal tenderness" }, "subject": { "reference": "Patient/example" }, "encounter": { "reference": "Encounter/example" }, "effectivePeriod": { "start": "2018-04-02T10:30:10+01:00" }, "issued": "2018-04-03T15:30:10+01:00", "valueBoolean": true, "interpretation": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation", "code": "A", "display": "Abnormal" } ], "text": "Abnormal" } ] }
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