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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 Body Height Example
{ "resourceType": "Observation", "id": "body-height", "meta": { "profile": [ "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns" ] }, "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 "body-height" </p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Profile: <a href=\"vitalsigns.html\">Vital Signs Profile</a></p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Vital Signs <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-observation-category.html\">Observation Category Codes</a>#vital-signs)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: Body height <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#8302-2)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> "Peter CHALMERS"</p><p><b>effective</b>: 1999-07-02</p><p><b>value</b>: 66.899999999999991 in<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code [in_i] = 'in_i')</span></p></div>" }, "status": "final", "category": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category", "code": "vital-signs", "display": "Vital Signs" } ], "text": "Vital Signs" } ], "code": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://loinc.org", "code": "8302-2", "display": "Body height" } ], "text": "Body height" }, "subject": { "reference": "Patient/example" }, "effectiveDateTime": "1999-07-02", "valueQuantity": { "value": 66.899999999999991, "unit": "in", "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org", "code": "[in_i]" } }
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.