FHIR Release 3 (STU) 4

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4.3.1.461 4.4.1.268 Value Set http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/specimen-collection-method

Orders and Observations Work Group   Maturity Level : 1 Informative Draft Use Context : Not Intended for Production use Any

This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.

Summary

Defining URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/specimen-collection-method
Version: 4.0.1
Name: FHIRSpecimenCollectionMethod
Title: FHIR Specimen Collection Method
Definition:

This example value set defines a set of codes that can be used to indicate the method of collection of by which a specimen. It includes values from HL7 v2 table 0048. specimen was collected.

Committee: Orders and Observations Work Group
OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.461 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.468 (for OID based terminology systems)
Copyright:

This value set resource includes content from SNOMED CT, Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) which is copyright © 2002+ of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and distributed by agreement between IHTSDO and HL7. Implementer use (IHTSDO). Implementers of these specifications must have the appropriate SNOMED CT is not covered by this agreement. Affiliate license - for more information contact http://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/get-snomed-ct or info@snomed.org

Source Resource XML / JSON

This value set is used in the following places:

4.3.1.461.1 4.4.1.268.1 Content Logical Definition

This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

 

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