FHIR Release 3 (STU)

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(No assigned work group)Maturity Level: N/ABallot Status: Informative
Defines common extensions used with or related to the Specimen resource
Extensions:
specimen-sequenceNumbersequenceNumber :

An assigned number on the specimen denoting the order of collection.

specimen-collectionPrioritycollectionPriority :

The urgency of sample collection, such as STAT, ASAP, ASAP-ED, ROUTINE, ROUTINE-AM, etc….

specimen-specialHandlingspecialHandling :

Special handling during the collection, transport, or storage of the specimen.

specimen-isDryWeightisDryWeight :

If the recorded quantity of the specimen is reported as a weight, if it is a dry weight.

specimen-processingTimeprocessingTime :

Period or duration of processing.