This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v0.4.0: DSTU 2 Draft). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.
Codes to describe the Specimen
Detailed Descriptions: XML or JSON.
This value set does not contain a fixed number of concepts
USLab Specimen Collection Source Site: all SNOMED CT descendents of Specimen Heirarchy (123038009)
Copyright Statement: 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
This value set includes codes defined in other code systems, using the following rules:
This value set is used in the following places:
The OID for the value set is 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.551 (OIDs are not used in FHIR, but may be used in v3, or OID based terminology systems).
See the full registry of value sets defined as part of FHIR.