Blood Pressure Cross-Country Cross-Language Cross-Paradigm (Demo) IG, published by FO. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.2.11 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/frankoemig/bloodpressure/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Content Definition

This page should collect the details for the content itself. However, as this guide is at the moment not mature enough, and the necessary resources are not yet provided this page is in a very draft state. It can be expected to enhance it at later point in time:

Element	Explanation / Comment
systolic	component
diastolic	component
exertion	level of physical exercising, including the indication of performed exercises shortly before the measurement
pulse pressure
normal non-invasive measurements	this is a set of 'simple' non-invasive measurements that are usually done by either the physician or the patient
special non-invasive measurements	another set of non-invasive measurements are only performed by surgeons
special invasive measurements	special bp measurement that require a surgery
mean arterial pressure	calculation by integratoing a set of individual measurements
pulse pressure	calculated value out of systolic and diastolic values
spot measurement	to be included in average calculations
average value	calculated value, optionally with references to the individual measurements; some average values are treated as a single spot value because the source values appear over a short period of time
date time of recording
date/time of observation
involved actors	who is involved into measuring bp values: physician, patient, recorder, ..
relevant medication
comment
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Open Issues

• collect all details
• introduce hierarchic structure (to visualize dependencies)