Birth And Fetal Death (BFDR) FHIR Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-bfdr/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
The BFDR uses categories to simplifiy query of conformant data. Each of the following categories (with associated LOINC code) has one or more associated Observations, Conditions and Procedures. Within each category the IG provides a mechanism to express the presence of various factors, and an indication that none of the factors is present, or the factor is unknown.
The interpretation of data sent for a given category is as follows:
This behavior matches the behavior of the electronic or paper forms used to capture that data. The none-of-the-above or unknown observations are associated with checking a none-of-the-above or unknown checkbox on the form as an alternative to checking one of the boxes in a grouping.
Developers parsing input specified by this IG can take advantage of the category field to query all of the data elements relating to a different category as follows: