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Orders and Observations Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: 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 "bmd" </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 "Femur DXA Bone density")</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example-b.html\">Patient/pat2</a> "Duck DONALD"</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> "Clinical Lab"</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.