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Example Observation/f001 (XML)

Orders and Observations Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

Raw XML (canonical form + also see XML Format Specification)

Real-world patient - glucose (id = "f001")

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="f001"/> 
  <identifier> 
    <use value="official"/> 
    <system value="http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/observations"/> 
    <value value="6323"/> 
  </identifier> 
  <status value="final"/> 
  <code> 
    <coding> 
      <system value="http://loinc.org"/> 
      <code value="15074-8"/> 
      <display value="Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"/> 
    </coding> 
  </code> 
  <subject> 
    <reference value="Patient/f001"/> 
    <display value="P. van de Heuvel"/> 
  </subject> 
  <effectiveDateTime value="2013-04-02T09:30:10+01:00"/> 
  <issued value="2013-04-03T15:30:10+01:00"/> 
  <performer> 
    <reference value="Practitioner/f005"/> 
    <display value="A. Langeveld"/> 
  </performer> 
  <valueQuantity> 
    <value value="6.3"/> 
    <unit value="mmol/l"/> 
    <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> 
    <code value="mmol/L"/> 
  </valueQuantity> 
  <interpretation> 
    <coding> 
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation"/> 
      <code value="H"/> 
      <display value="High"/> 
    </coding> 
  </interpretation> 
  <referenceRange> 
    <low> 
      <value value="3.1"/> 
      <unit value="mmol/l"/> 
      <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> 
      <code value="mmol/L"/> 
    </low> 
    <high> 
      <value value="6.2"/> 
      <unit value="mmol/l"/> 
      <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> 
      <code value="mmol/L"/> 
    </high> 
  </referenceRange> 
</Observation> 

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.