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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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Example of an Observations made about a location - an oyster farm
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "vp-oyster", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"vp-oyster\"> </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 "vp-oyster" </p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: id: 20171014-1234 (OFFICIAL)</p><p><b>status</b>: preliminary</p><p><b>code</b>: <span title=\" \n Observations are often coded in multiple code systems.\n - LOINC\n\t\t- or SNOMED\n -and/or the source system may provides its own "local" code, which may be less or more granular than LOINC.\n\tIn this example there is only local codes\n \">OYSTER TESTING <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#41857-4 "Vibrio parahaemolyticus DNA [Presence] in Unspecified specimen by Probe and target amplification method"; test-codes#VP MULTI PCR "VP MULTI PCR")</span></span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <span>: Sonoma oyster farm</span></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2017-10-12</p><p><b>issued</b>: 15/10/2017 10:11:24 AM</p><p><b>performer</b>: <a href=\"practitioner-example-f005-al.html\">Practitioner/f005: A. Langeveld</a> "Langeveld ANNE"</p><p><b>value</b>: <span title=\" results of this Qualtiattive PCR is a choice of Positive/Negative and Inconclusive \">POSITIVE <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#10828004 "Positive (qualifier value)"; result-codes#POSITIVE)</span></span></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><p><b>specimen</b>: <a name=\"group1\"> </a></p><blockquote><p/><p><a name=\"group1\"> </a></p><p><b>type</b>: animal</p><p><b>membership</b>: enumerated</p><blockquote><p><b>member</b></p><p><b>entity</b>: <a href=\"#bed1\">#bed1</a></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b>member</b></p><p><b>entity</b>: <a href=\"#bed2\">#bed2</a></p></blockquote></blockquote><h3>ReferenceRanges</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Text</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>NEGATIVE</td></tr></table></div>" }, "contained": [ { "resourceType": "Specimen", "id": "bed1", "note": [ { "text": "Live Oysters Acc#20171014-1234 from Bed 1" } ] }, { "resourceType": "Specimen", "id": "bed2", "note": [ { "text": "Live Oysters Acc#20171014-1234 from Bed 2" } ] }, { "resourceType": "Group", "id": "group1", "type": "animal", "membership": "enumerated", "member": [ { "entity": { "reference": "#bed1" } }, { "entity": { "reference": "#bed2" } } ] } ], "identifier": [ { "use": "official", "system": "http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Health/Public-Health/Laboratory", "value": "20171014-1234" } ], "status": "preliminary", "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "41857-4", "display": "Vibrio parahaemolyticus DNA [Presence] in Unspecified specimen by Probe and target amplification method" }, { "system": "http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Health/Public-Health/Laboratory/test-codes", "code": "VP MULTI PCR", "display": "VP MULTI PCR" } ], "text": "OYSTER TESTING" }, "subject": { "display": "Sonoma oyster farm" }, "effectiveDateTime": "2017-10-12", "issued": "2017-10-14T23:11:24Z", "performer": [ { "reference": "Practitioner/f005", "display": "A. Langeveld" } ], "valueCodeableConcept": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "10828004", "display": "Positive (qualifier value)" }, { "system": "http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/Health/Public-Health/Laboratory/result-codes", "code": "POSITIVE", "display": "POSITIVE" } ], "text": "POSITIVE" }, "interpretation": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation", "code": "A", "display": "Abnormal" } ] } ], "specimen": { "reference": "#group1" }, "referenceRange": [ { "text": "NEGATIVE" } ] }
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