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Example Observation/bmd (JSON)

Orders and Observations Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)

Example of an encoded BMD measurements of left femur

{
  "resourceType" : "Observation",
  "id" : "bmd",
  "status" : "final",
  "code" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "24701-5",
      "display" : "DXA Femur [Mass/Area] Bone density"
    }],
    "text" : "BMD - Left Femur"
  },
  "subject" : {
    "reference" : "Patient/pat2"
  },
  "performer" : [{
    "reference" : "Organization/1832473e-2fe0-452d-abe9-3cdb9879522f",
    "display" : "Acme Imaging Diagnostics"
  }],
  "valueQuantity" : {
    "value" : 0.887,
    "unit" : "g/cm²",
    "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code" : "g/cm-2"
  },
  "bodySite" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://snomed.info/sct",
      "code" : "71341001:272741003=7771000"
    }],
    "text" : "Left Femur"
  }
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.