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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 Head Circumference Example (id = "head-circumference")
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="head-circumference"/> <meta> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"/> </meta> <text> <status value="generated"/> <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 "head-circumference" </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> : Head Circumference <span style="background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki"> (<a href="https://loinc.org/">LOINC</a> #9843-4 "Head Occipital-frontal circumference")</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> : 51.2 cm<span style="background: LightGoldenRodYellow"> (Details: UCUM code cm = 'cm')</span> </p> </div> </text> <status value="final"/> <category> <coding> <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category"/> <code value="vital-signs"/> <display value="Vital Signs"/> </coding> <text value="Vital Signs"/> </category> <code> <coding> <system value="http://loinc.org"/> <code value="9843-4"/> <display value="Head Occipital-frontal circumference"/> </coding> <text value="Head Circumference"/> </code> <subject> <reference value="Patient/example"/> </subject> <effectiveDateTime value="1999-07-02"/> <valueQuantity> <value value="51.2"/> <unit value="cm"/> <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> <code value="cm"/> </valueQuantity> </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.