Release 5 Ballot

This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v5.0.0-ballot: FHIR R5 Ballot Preview). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions . Page versions: R5 R4B R4 R3

Example Observation/bmd (JSON)

Orders and Observations Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

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

Example of an encoded BMD measurements of left femur

{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "bmd",
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"bmd\"> </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 &quot;bmd&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: BMD - Left Femur <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#24701-5 &quot;Femur DXA Bone density&quot;)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example-b.html\">Patient/pat2</a> &quot;Duck DONALD&quot;</p><p><b>performer</b>: <span title=\"       well, actually. this isn't the patient, but it'll do for now       \"><a href=\"organization-example-lab.html\">Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f: Acme Imaging Diagnostics</a> &quot;Clinical Lab&quot;</span></p><p><b>value</b>: 0.887 g/cm²<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code g/cm-2 = 'g/cm-2')</span></p><p><b>bodySite</b>: Left Femur <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#71341001:272741003=7771000)</span></p></div>"
  },
  "status": "final",
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "24701-5",
        "display": "Femur DXA Bone density"
      }
    ],
    "text": "BMD - Left Femur"
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/pat2"
  },
  "performer": [
    {
      "reference": "Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f",
      "display": "Acme Imaging Diagnostics"
    }
  ],
  "valueQuantity": {
    "value": 0.887,
    "unit": "g/cm²",
    "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code": "g/cm-2"
  },
  "bodySite": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code": "71341001:272741003=7771000"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Left Femur"
  }
}

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.