US Core Implementation Guide
8.0.1 - STU 8 US

US Core Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Cross-Group Projects. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 8.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/US-Core/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : Head Circumference Example - XML Representation

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    <Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
      <id value="head-circumference"/>
      <meta>
        <profile
                 value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-head-circumference|8.0.1"/>
      </meta>
      <text>
        <status value="generated"/>
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: Observation head-circumference</b></p><a name="head-circumference"> </a><a name="hchead-circumference"> </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-core-head-circumference.html">US Core Head Circumference Profile</a> version: 8.0.1</p></div><p><b>status</b>: Final</p><p><b>category</b>: <span title="Codes:{http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category vital-signs}">Vital Signs</span></p><p><b>code</b>: <span title="Codes:{http://loinc.org 9843-4}">Head Circumference</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href="Patient-infant-example.html">Infant Example  (no stated gender), DoB: 2020-06-02 ( Medical Record Number: 1032703 (use: usual, ))</a></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2020-11-18 16:19:31-0800</p><p><b>performer</b>: <a href="Practitioner-practitioner-1.html">Dr Ronald Bone</a></p><p><b>value</b>: 51.2 cm<span style="background: LightGoldenRodYellow"> (Details: UCUM  codecm = 'cm')</span></p></div>
      </text>
      <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>
      <code>
        <coding>
          <system value="http://loinc.org"/>
          <code value="9843-4"/>
          <display value="Head Occipital-frontal circumference"/>
        </coding>
        <text value="Head Circumference"/>
      </code>
      <subject>🔗
        <reference value="Patient/infant-example"/>
      </subject>
      <effectiveDateTime value="2020-11-18T16:19:31-08:00"/>
      <performer>🔗
        <reference value="Practitioner/practitioner-1"/>
        <display value="Dr Ronald Bone"/>
      </performer>
      <valueQuantity>
        <value value="51.2"/>
        <unit value="cm"/>
        <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/>
        <code value="cm"/>
      </valueQuantity>
    </Observation>