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Example Observation/body-length (XML)

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Responsible Owner: Orders and Observations Work Group Standards Status : Informative Compartments : Device , Encounter , Group , Patient , Practitioner , RelatedPerson

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Simple Body Length Example (id = "body-length")

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="body-length"/> 
  <meta> 
    <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"/> 
  </meta> 
  display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border:
       1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%   This example demonstrates the use of a code translation to allow the observation
         to be interpreted as Body Length  ( typically used for infants)   

  <status value="final"/> 
  <category> 
    <coding> 
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category"/> 
      <code value="vital-signs"/> 
      <display value="Vital Signs"/> 
    </coding> 
    <text value="Vital Signs"/> 
  </category> 
      <!--     This example demonstrates the use of a code translation to allow the observation
   to be interpreted as Body Length  ( typically used for infants)     -->

  <!--    This example demonstrates a measurement code for "Body Length" ( typically used
   for infants) which is more specific than the "interoperability category" code for
   "Body height".   -->

  <code> 
    <coding> 
      <system value="http://loinc.org"/> 
      
      
    
    
      

      <code value="8306-3"/> 
      <display value="Body height --lying"/> 
      <userSelected value="true"/> 
    </coding> 
    <coding> 
      <!--   for the vital signs profile   -->
      <system value="http://loinc.org"/> 
      <code value="8302-2"/> 
      <display value="Body height"/> 
    </coding> 
    <text value="Body Length"/> 
  </code> 
  <subject> 
    <reference value="Patient/example"/> 
  </subject> 
  <effectiveDateTime value="1999-07-02"/> 
  <valueQuantity> 
    <value value="25"/> 
    <unit value="cm"/> 
    <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/> 
    <code value="cm"/> 
  </valueQuantity> 


</

Observation

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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.