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Orders and Observations Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: 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.