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Example Observation/bmi (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)

Simple BMI Example

{
  "resourceType" : "Observation",
  "id" : "bmi",
  "meta" : {
    "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"]
  },
  "status" : "final",
  "category" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
      "code" : "vital-signs",
      "display" : "Vital Signs"
    }],
    "text" : "Vital Signs"
  },
  {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "39156-5",
      "display" : "Body mass index (BMI) [Ratio]"
    }]
  }],
  "code" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "39156-5",
      "display" : "Body mass index (BMI) [Ratio]"
    }],
    "text" : "BMI"
  },
  "subject" : {
    "reference" : "Patient/example"
  },
  "effectiveDateTime" : "1999-07-02",
  "valueQuantity" : {
    "value" : 16.2,
    "unit" : "kg/m2",
    "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code" : "kg/m2"
  }
}

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.