Release 4B R5 Final QA

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Observation-example-body-height.json

Example Observation/body-height (JSON)

Orders and Observations Work Group Maturity Level : N/A Standards Status : Informative Compartments : Device , Encounter , Patient , Practitioner , RelatedPerson

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

Simple Body Height Example

{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "body-height",
  "meta": {
    "profile": [
      "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"
    ]

  "resourceType" : "Observation",
  "id" : "body-height",
  "meta" : {
    "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"]

  },
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></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 &quot;body-height&quot; </p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Profile: <a href=\"vitalsigns.html\">Vital Signs Profile</a></p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Vital Signs <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"codesystem-observation-category.html\">Observation Category Codes</a>#vital-signs)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: Body height <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#8302-2)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> &quot;Peter CHALMERS&quot;</p><p><b>effective</b>: 1999-07-02</p><p><b>value</b>: 66.899999999999991 in<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code [in_i] = 'in_i')</span></p></div>"

  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"body-height\"> </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 &quot;body-height&quot; </p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Profile: <a href=\"vitalsigns.html\">Vital Signs Profile</a></p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Vital Signs <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/4.0.0/CodeSystem-observation-category.html\">Observation Category Codes</a>#vital-signs)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: Body height <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#8302-2)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> &quot;Peter CHALMERS&quot;</p><p><b>effective</b>: 1999-07-02</p><p><b>value</b>: 66.899999999999991 in<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code [in_i] = 'in_i')</span></p></div>"

  },
  "status": "final",
  "category": [
    {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
          "code": "vital-signs",
          "display": "Vital Signs"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Vital Signs"
    }
  ],
  "code": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "8302-2",
        "display": "Body height"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Body height"

  "status" : "final",
  "category" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
      "code" : "vital-signs",
      "display" : "Vital Signs"
    }],
    "text" : "Vital Signs"
  }],
  "code" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "8302-2",
      "display" : "Body height"
    }],
    "text" : "Body height"

  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/example"

  "subject" : {
    "reference" : "Patient/example"

  },
  "effectiveDateTime": "1999-07-02",
  "valueQuantity": {
    "value": 66.899999999999991,
    "unit": "in",
    "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code": "[in_i]"

  "effectiveDateTime" : "1999-07-02",
  "valueQuantity" : {
    "value" : 66.899999999999991,
    "unit" : "in",
    "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "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.