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4.4.1.118 Value Set http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/observation-range-category

Orders and Observations

Work Group

Maturity Level: 1

Trial Use

Use Context: Any

This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.

Summary

Defining URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/observation-range-category

Version: 4.6.0

Name: ObservationRangeCategory

Title: ObservationRangeCategory

Definition:

Codes identifying the category of observation range.

Committee: Orders and Observations Work Group

OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.1333 (for OID based terminology systems)

Source Resource XML / JSON

This value set is used in the following places:

CodeSystem: This value set is the designated 'entire code system' value set for ObservationRangeCategory
Resource: ObservationDefinition.qualifiedValue.rangeCategory (code / Required)

4.4.1.118.1 Content Logical Definition

Include all codes defined in http://hl7.org/fhir/observation-range-category

4.4.1.118.2 Expansion

This expansion generated 15 Apr 2021

This value set contains 3 concepts

Expansion based on ObservationRangeCategory v4.6.0 (CodeSystem)

All codes from system http://hl7.org/fhir/observation-range-category

Code	Display	Definition
reference	reference range	Reference (Normal) Range for Ordinal and Continuous Observations.
critical	critical range	Critical Range for Ordinal and Continuous Observations. Results outside this range are critical.
absolute	absolute range	Absolute Range for Ordinal and Continuous Observations. Results outside this range are not possible.

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Lvl

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Source

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Code

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Definition

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Comments

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