Observation

https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/observation.html

Status

Released. Further enhancements planned.

Overview

The Observation resource type represents laboratory results.

Relevant PKB Entities

Endpoints

InteractionHTTPURLSupported Search ParamsPermitted User TypesDescriptionExamples (more)
searchGET/Observation
  • category. Required. Multi-value support: none. Modifier support: none.
  • patient. Required. Multi-value support: none. Modifier support: [<type>].
  • date. Optional. Multi-value support: AND. Modifier support: none. Prefix support: [eq, gt, lt, ge, le].
  • Patient
  • Professional
Retrieve observations for a specific patient, optionally restricted by date range./Observation?category=http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/observation-category|LABORATORY&patient=Patient/ca9db36c-1b77-4d12-9246-d78fa5d13e8c&date=2018-07-01

/Observation?category=http://fhir.patientsknowbest.com/codesystem/observation-category|LABORATORY&patient=Patient/ca9db36c-1b77-4d12-9246-d78fa5d13e8c&date=ge2018-07-01&date=le2018-07-31

Mappings

FHIRPKB (Lab Result)Notes
Resource id[[Lab Result.Data Point ID]]  
Observation.status"unknown"

Observation.code
  • extension[0]: Extension
    • url = "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/data-absent-reason"
    • valueCode = "unknown"

Observation.effectiveDateTime[[Lab Result.Timestamp]]
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