Stream: implementers
Topic: BP
Angelo Kastroulis (Mar 18 2016 at 13:22):
Any recommendations on how to model a blood pressure as a goal?
Eric Haas (Mar 19 2016 at 00:59):
http://hl7-fhir.github.io/qicore/goal-example.xml.html show a simple example for wt loss and that could just as easily be bp. note the extension http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/goal-target is used to describe the actual detail outcome. so you could have a couple of these depending on how you choose your outcomes systolic vs diastolic vs mean. (I'm a vet so all we ever look at is systolic - :-) ). I'm speculating that it is an extension becasue the PC workgroup did not know if it would be commonly support instead of a text blob in Goal.description. Lloyd will probably chime in here soon....
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 19 2016 at 21:09):
@Eric Haas is correct. We weren't confident that most systems that handle goals are capable of capturing discrete target values. (We weren't confident they weren't either, so this is one of those "define an extension and see what implementers do" scenarios.) You'd need to declare multiple goal-target extensions on your goal - one for systolic and one for diastolic - both with a value as a Quantity.
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