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Definition for Value SetObservation Methods
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="valueset-observation-methods"/> <meta> <lastUpdated value="2015-02-23T09:07:27.665+11:00"/> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/valueset-shareable-definition"/> </meta> <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- Snipped for brevity --></div> </text> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-oid"> <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.114"/> </extension> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/observation-methods"/> <version value="0.4.0"/> <name value="Observation Methods"/> <publisher value="FHIR Project team"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="url"/> <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/> </telecom> </contact> <description value="Method Codes defined as part of v3"/> <copyright value="This value set includes content from LOINC®, which is copyright © 1995 Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the LOINC Committee, and available at no cost under the license at http://loinc.org/terms-o f-use. This value set includes content from SNOMED CT, which is copyright © 2002+ International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and distributed by agreement between IHTSDO and HL7. Implementer use of SNOMED CT is not covered by this agreement"/> <status value="draft"/> <experimental value="true"/><!-- LOINC doesn't formally expose the methods as set of codes, but we want to use them here? so we define this as a set of new codes. TODO: discuss this with LOINC --> <compose> <include> <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ObservationMethod"/> </include> <include> <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/> <filter><!-- todo: work this over. what this means is any concepts where they have is-a with 404684003 how should this be done? --> <property value="concept"/> <op value="is-a"/> <value value="272394005"/> </filter> </include> <include> <system value="http://loinc.org"/> <filter><!-- All LOINC codes that are methods. These will all have codes starting with "^LP" --> <property value="Type"/> <op value="="/> <value value="METHOD_TYP"/> </filter> </include> </compose> </ValueSet>
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.