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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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Simple Weight Example
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "example", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"example\"> </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 "example" </p></div><p><b>status</b>: <span title=\" the mandatory quality flags: \">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. \">Vital Signs <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>#vital-signs)</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 \">Body Weight <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#29463-7; <a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#3141-9 "Body weight Measured"; <a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#27113001 "Body weight"; clinical-codes#body-weight)</span></span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> "Peter CHALMERS"</p><p><b>encounter</b>: <a href=\"encounter-example.html\">Encounter/example</a></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2016-03-28</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 \">185 lbs<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code [lb_av] = 'lb_av')</span></span></p></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "vital-signs", "display": "Vital Signs" } ] } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "29463-7", "display": "Body Weight" }, { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "3141-9", "display": "Body weight Measured" }, { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "27113001", "display": "Body weight" }, { "system": "http://acme.org/devices/clinical-codes", "code": "body-weight", "display": "Body Weight" } ] }, "subject": { "reference": "Patient/example" }, "encounter": { "reference": "Encounter/example" }, "effectiveDateTime": "2016-03-28", "valueQuantity": { "value": 185, "unit": "lbs", "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org", "code": "[lb_av]" } }
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.