Release 4B Ballot #1

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Observation-example-bmd.json

Orders and Observations Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

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

Example of an encoded BMD measurements of left femur

{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "bmd",
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p/><p><b>code</b>: <span>BMD - Left Femur</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Generated Summary: Medical record number: 123456 (USUAL); active; Duck D Donald (OFFICIAL); gender: other</a></p><p><b>performer</b>: <a>Acme Imaging Diagnostics. Generated Summary: id: ClinLab; name: Clinical Lab; Phone: +1 555 234 1234, contact@labs.acme.org</a></p><p><b>value</b>: 0.887 g/cm²</p><p><b>bodySite</b>: <span>Left Femur</span></p></div>"
  },
  "status": "final",
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "24701-5",
        "display": "Femur DXA Bone density"
      }
    ],
    "text": "BMD - Left Femur"
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/pat2"
  },
  "performer": [
    {
      "reference": "Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f",
      "display": "Acme Imaging Diagnostics"
    }
  ],
  "valueQuantity": {
    "value": 0.887,
    "unit": "g/cm²",
    "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code": "g/cm-2"
  },
  "bodySite": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code": "71341001:272741003=7771000"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Left Femur"
  }
}

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.