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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)
Example of an encoded BMD measurements of left femur (id = "bmd")
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"><!-- BMD measurements of left femur encoded as an observation for example purposes. --><id value="bmd"/> <text> <status value="generated"/> <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> </text> <status value="final"/> <code> <coding> <system value="http://loinc.org"/> <code value="24701-5"/> <display value="Femur DXA Bone density"/> </coding> <text value="BMD - Left Femur"/> </code> <subject> <reference value="Patient/pat2"/> </subject> <!-- well, actually. this isn't the patient, but it'll do for now --><performer> <reference value="Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f"/> <display value="Acme Imaging Diagnostics"/> </performer> <valueQuantity> <value value="0.887"/> <unit value="g/cm²"/> <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> <code value="g/cm-2"/> </valueQuantity> <bodySite> <coding> <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/> <code value="71341001:272741003=7771000"/> <!-- example of a post coordinated term --></coding> <text value="Left Femur"/> </bodySite> </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.