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Valueset-ucum-bodylength.json

Example ValueSet/ucum-bodylength (JSON)

Maturity Level : N/A
Responsible Owner: Vocabulary Terminology Infrastructure Work Group Ballot Standards Status : Informative

Raw JSON ( canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification )

Definition for Value SetBody Length Units

{
  "resourceType": "ValueSet",
  "id": "ucum-bodylength",
  "meta": {
    "lastUpdated": "2019-10-24T11:53:00+11:00",
    "profile": [
      "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablevalueset"
    ]

  "resourceType" : "ValueSet",
  "id" : "ucum-bodylength",
  "meta" : {
    "lastUpdated" : "2025-11-24T20:46:00.100+00:00"

  },
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"

  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: ValueSet ucum-bodylength</b></p><a name=\"ucum-bodylength\"> </a><a name=\"hcucum-bodylength\"> </a><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href=\"http://unitsofmeasure.org\"><code>http://unitsofmeasure.org</code></a><span title=\"Version is not explicity stated. No matching Code System found\"> version Not Stated (use latest from terminology server)</span><table class=\"none\"><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td></tr><tr><td>cm</td><td style=\"color: #cccccc\">cm</td></tr><tr><td>[in_i]</td><td style=\"color: #cccccc\">[in_i]</td></tr></table></li></ul></div>"

  },
  "extension": [
    {
      "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-ballot-status",
      "valueString": "Informative"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
      "valueInteger": 0
    }
  ],
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/ucum-bodylength",
  "identifier": [
    {
      "system": "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
      "value": "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.873"
    }
  ],
  "version": "3.0.2",
  "name": "Body Length Units",
  "status": "draft",
  "experimental": true,
  "date": "2019-10-24T11:53:00+11:00",
  "publisher": "FHIR Project",
  "contact": [
    {
      "telecom": [
        {
          "system": "url",
          "value": "http://hl7.org/fhir"
        },
        {
          "system": "email",
          "value": "fhir@lists.hl7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "UCUM units for recording Body Length measures such as height and head circumference",
  "copyright": "UCUM is Copyright © 1999-2013 Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and The UCUM Organization, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved. See http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac//wiki/TermsOfUse for details",
  "extensible": false,
  "compose": {
    "include": [

  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-extensible",
    "valueBoolean" : false
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
    "valueCode" : "oo"
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
    "valueCode" : "normative"
  }],
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/ucum-bodylength",
  "identifier" : [{
    "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
    "value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.958"
  },
  {
    "use" : "old",
    "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
    "value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.873"
  }],
  "version" : "6.0.0-ballot3",
  "name" : "BodyLengthUnits",
  "title" : "Body Length Units",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "publisher" : "FHIR Project",
  "description" : "UCUM units for recording body length measures such as height and head circumference",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "001",
      "display" : "World"
    }]
  }],
  "copyright" : "UCUM is Copyright © 1999-2013 Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and The UCUM Organization, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved. See http://unitsofmeasure.org/trac//wiki/TermsOfUse for details",
  "compose" : {
    "include" : [{
      "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
      "concept" : [{
        "code" : "cm"
      },

      {
        "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
        "concept": [
          {
            "code": "cm"
          },
          {
            "code": "[in_i]"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]

        "code" : "[in_i]"
      }]
    }]

  }
}

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.