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An example of a herd screening ELISA assay for Mycoplasmal Pneumonia in Pigs.
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "herd1", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"herd1\"> </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 "herd1" </p></div><p><b>status</b>: <span title=\" the mandatory status \">final</span></p><p><b>category</b>: <span title=\" category code is A code that classifies the general type of observation being made. This is used for searching, sorting and display purposes. \">Laboratory <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>#laboratory)</span></span></p><p><b>code</b>: <span title=\" \n Observations are often coded in multiple code systems.\n - LOINC provides codes of varying granularity (though not usefully more specific in this particular case) and more generic LOINCs can be mapped to more specific codes as shown here\n - snomed provides a clinically relevant code that is usually less granular than LOINC\n - the source system provides its own code, which may be less or more granular than LOINC\n \">Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae - MHP <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#80219-9 "Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Ab sample/Positive control in Serum by Immunoassay"; clinical-codes#Mycoplasma "Mycoplasma")</span></span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <span title=\" subject is a herd of 2500 breding sows \"><a href=\"group-example-herd1.html\">Group/herd1</a> "Breeding herd"</span></p><p><b>encounter</b>: <span>: part of a health assurance program</span></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2017-11-20</p><p><b>value</b>: <span title=\" In FHIR, units may be represented twice. Once in the\n agreed human representation, and once in a coded form.\n Both is best, since it's not always possible to infer\n one from the other in code.\n\n When a computable unit is provided, UCUM (http://unitsofmeasure.org)\n is always preferred, but it doesn't provide notional units (such as\n "tablet"), etc. For these, something else is required (e.g. SNOMED CT)\n \">0.2 % (sample/positive control)<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code % = '%')</span></span></p><p><b>interpretation</b>: Negative <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>#NEG)</span></p><p><b>specimen</b>: <span title=\" Specimen is a pooled serology sample of 30 animals. \"><a href=\"specimen-example-pooled-serum.html\">Specimen/pooled-serum: 30 serum</a></span></p><h3>ReferenceRanges</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Text</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>>0.4 Positive; 0.3 to 0.4 Suspect < 0.3 Negative</td></tr></table></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "laboratory", "display": "Laboratory" } ], "text": "Laboratory" } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "80219-9", "display": "Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Ab sample/Positive control in Serum by Immunoassay" }, { "system": "http://acme.org/devices/clinical-codes", "code": "Mycoplasma", "display": "Mycoplasma" } ], "text": "Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae - MHP" }, "subject": { "reference": "Group/herd1" }, "encounter": { "display": "part of a health assurance program" }, "effectiveDateTime": "2017-11-20", "valueQuantity": { "value": 0.2, "unit": "% (sample/positive control)", "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org", "code": "%" }, "interpretation": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation", "code": "NEG", "display": "Negative" } ], "text": "Negative" } ], "specimen": { "reference": "Specimen/pooled-serum", "display": "30 serum" }, "referenceRange": [ { "text": ">0.4 Positive; 0.3 to 0.4 Suspect < 0.3 Negative" } ] }
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