Release 5 Ballot

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Example Observation/f206 (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)

Real-world patient - staphylococcus

{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "f206",
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"f206\"> </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;f206&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Blood culture <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (acmelabs.org#104177; <a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#600-7 &quot;Bacteria identified in Blood by Culture&quot;)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <span title=\"  No identifier could be provided to this observation  \"><a href=\"patient-example-f201-roel.html\">Patient/f201: Roel</a> &quot;Roel&quot;</span></p><p><b>issued</b>: 11/03/2013 8:28:00 PM</p><p><b>performer</b>: <a href=\"practitioner-example-f202-lm.html\">Practitioner/f202: Luigi Maas</a> &quot;Luigi Maas&quot;</p><p><b>value</b>: Staphylococcus aureus <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#3092008)</span></p><p><b>interpretation</b>: Positive <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>#POS)</span></p><p><b>method</b>: <span title=\"  BodySite not relevant  \">Blood culture for bacteria, including anaerobic screen <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#104177005)</span></span></p></div>"
  },
  "status": "final",
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://acmelabs.org",
        "code": "104177",
        "display": "Blood culture"
      },
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "600-7",
        "display": "Bacteria identified in Blood by Culture"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/f201",
    "display": "Roel"
  },
  "issued": "2013-03-11T10:28:00+01:00",
  "performer": [
    {
      "reference": "Practitioner/f202",
      "display": "Luigi Maas"
    }
  ],
  "valueCodeableConcept": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code": "3092008",
        "display": "Staphylococcus aureus"
      }
    ]
  },
  "interpretation": [
    {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation",
          "code": "POS"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "method": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code": "104177005",
        "display": "Blood culture for bacteria, including anaerobic screen"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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.