2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide
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2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide, published by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.5.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/FHIR/us-quality-core/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : BodyStructure example - XML Representation

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    <BodyStructure xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
      <id value="example"/>
      <meta>
        <profile
                 value="http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-bodystructure"/>
      </meta>
      <text>
        <status value="generated"/>
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: BodyStructure example</b></p><a name="example"> </a><a name="hcexample"> </a><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"/><p style="margin-bottom: 0px">Profile: <a href="StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-bodystructure.html">US Quality Core BodyStructure</a></p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: 12345</p><p><b>active</b>: true</p><p><b>morphology</b>: <span title="Codes:{http://snomed.info/sct 4147007}">Splenic mass</span></p><p><b>location</b>: <span title="Codes:{http://snomed.info/sct 78961009}">Splenic mass</span></p><p><b>description</b>: 7 cm maximum diameter</p><h3>Images</h3><table class="grid"><tr><td style="display: none">-</td><td><b>ContentType</b></td><td><b>Url</b></td></tr><tr><td style="display: none">*</td><td>application/dicom</td><td><a href="http://imaging.acme.com/wado/server?requestType=WADO&amp;amp;wado_details">http://imaging.acme.com/wado/server?requestType=WADO&amp;amp;wado_details</a></td></tr></table><p><b>patient</b>: <a href="Patient-example.html">Jim Chalmers  Male, DoB: 1974-12-25 ( Social Security number (use: usual, period: 2001-05-06 --&gt; (ongoing)))</a></p></div>
      </text>
      <identifier>
        <value value="12345"/>
      </identifier>
      <active value="true"/>
      <morphology>
        <coding>
          <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>
          <code value="4147007"/>
          <display value="Mass (morphologic abnormality)"/>
        </coding>
        <text value="Splenic mass"/>
      </morphology>
      <location>
        <coding>
          <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>
          <code value="78961009"/>
          <display value="Splenic structure (body structure)"/>
        </coding>
        <text value="Splenic mass"/>
      </location>
      <description value="7 cm maximum diameter"/>
      <image>
        <contentType value="application/dicom"/>
        <url
             value="http://imaging.acme.com/wado/server?requestType=WADO&amp;amp;wado_details"/>
      </image>
      <patient>🔗
        <reference value="Patient/example"/>
      </patient>
    </BodyStructure>