This page is part of the FHIR Specification v6.0.0-ballot1: Release 6 Ballot (1st Draft) (see Ballot Notes). The current version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
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: Observation</b><a name=\"bmd\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation "bmd" </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: BMD - Left Femur <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#24701-5 "Femur DXA Bone density")</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example-b.html\">Patient/pat2</a> "Duck DONALD"</p><p><b>performer</b>: <span title=\" well, actually. this isn't the patient, but it'll do for now \"><a href=\"organization-example-lab.html\">Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f: Acme Imaging Diagnostics</a> "Clinical Lab"</span></p><p><b>value</b>: 0.887 g/cm²<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code g/cm-2 = 'g/cm-2')</span></p><p><b>bodySite</b>: Left Femur <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#71341001:272741003=7771000)</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.