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Example Observation/body-length (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)

Simple Body Length Example

{
  "resourceType" : "Observation",
  "id" : "body-length",
  "meta" : {
    "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"]
  },
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"body-length\"> </a><a name=\"hcbody-length\"> </a></p><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\">Resource Observation &quot;body-length&quot; </p><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Profile: <a href=\"vitalsigns.html\">Vital Signs Profile</a></p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>category</b>: Vital Signs <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/5.5.0/CodeSystem-observation-category.html\">Observation Category Codes</a>#vital-signs)</span></p><p><b>code</b>: <span title=\"   This example demonstrates the use of a code translation to allow the observation to be interpreted as Body Length  ( typically used for infants)   \">Body Length <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#8302-2 &quot;Body height&quot;; <a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#8306-3 &quot;Body height --lying&quot;)</span></span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example.html\">Patient/example</a> &quot;Peter CHALMERS&quot;</p><p><b>effective</b>: 1999-07-02</p><p><b>value</b>: 25 cm<span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow\"> (Details: UCUM code cm = 'cm')</span></p></div>"
  },
  "status" : "final",
  "category" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
      "code" : "vital-signs",
      "display" : "Vital Signs"
    }],
    "text" : "Vital Signs"
  }],
  "code" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "8302-2",
      "display" : "Body height"
    },
    {
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "8306-3",
      "display" : "Body height --lying",
      "userSelected" : true
    }],
    "text" : "Body Length"
  },
  "subject" : {
    "reference" : "Patient/example"
  },
  "effectiveDateTime" : "1999-07-02",
  "valueQuantity" : {
    "value" : 25,
    "unit" : "cm",
    "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code" : "cm"
  }
}

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.