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This page is part of the Da Vinci Payer Data Exchange (v2.0.0: STU2) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version in its permanent home (it will always be available at this URL). For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

VitalSigns

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This IG supports the full complement of US Core profiles. They are supported to enable a payer to produce FHIR resources from data provided in other formats.

For some resources, payers are unlikely to have the clinical information necessary to create a valid US Core resource. The Vital Signs is referenced in US Core but uses the profile from the base FHIR specification and does not create a US Core specific profile. Payers may be unable to create a valid Vital Signs record from the source clinical data they have available.

A Vital Signs resource requires a status, a magic value for what is being measured, the patient information and a time when the observation was taken. Payers may not have access to the detail measurement data needed to create a valid Vital Signs resource.

The essential fields (Must Support or Cardinality greater than 0..*) to be provided in the Vital Signs resource are:

R4 Element Name Cardinality Type
Observation.status status 1..1 code
Observation.category category   (Slice Definition)
Observation.category:VSCat category:VSCat 1..1 CodeableConcept
Observation.category:VSCat.coding coding 1..* Coding
Observation.category:VSCat.coding.system system 1..1 uri
Observation.category:VSCat.coding.code code 1..1 code
Observation.code code 1..1 CodeableConcept
Observation.subject subject 1..1 Reference(Patient)
Observation.effective[x] effective[x] 1..1  
Observation.value[x] value[x] 0..1  
Observation.dataAbsentReason dataAbsentReason 0..1 CodeableConcept
Observation.component component 0..* BackboneElement
Observation.component.code code 1..1 CodeableConcept
Observation.component.value[x] value[x] 0..1  
Observation.component.dataAbsentReason dataAbsentReason 0..1 CodeableConcept

Table Definition

Examples of Vital Signs Resources

  • Vital Signs Panel: Vital signs, weight, height, head circumference, oxygen saturation and BMI panel
  • Respiratory Rate
  • Heart rate
  • Oxygen Saturation
  • Body Temperature
  • Body Height
  • Head Circumference
  • Body Weight
  • Body Mass Index
  • Blood Pressure (systolic and diastolic)

See links to examples in the FHIR R4 specification here: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/observation-vitalsigns.html

https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/observation-vitalsigns.html.

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