Release 4B Ballot #1

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Observation-decimal.xml

Orders and Observations Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Standards Status: Informative

Compartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

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

Jump past Narrative

Explores the edge cases of the decimal data type (id = "decimal")

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

<Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="decimal"/> 
  <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> <b> Generated Narrative</b> </p> <p/>  <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Decimal Testing Observation</span> </p> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1.0 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1.00 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1.0 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1E-22 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1000000000000000000 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : 1.000000000000000000E-245 g</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p> <b> component</b> </p> <p> <b> code</b> : <span> Component</span> </p> <p> <b> value</b> : -1.000000000000000000E+245 g</p> </blockquote> </div> </text> <status value="final"/> 
  <code> 
    <text value="Decimal Testing Observation"/> 
  </code> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="1.0"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="1.00"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="1.0e0"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="0.0000000000000000000001"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="1000000000000000000"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="1.000000000000000000e-245"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
  <component> 
    <code> 
      <text value="Component"/> 
    </code> 
    <valueQuantity> 
      <value value="-1.000000000000000000e245"/> 
      <unit value="g"/> 
    </valueQuantity> 
  </component> 
</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.