Stream: implementers
Topic: Blood Pressure Qualifiers
Pranitha Sruthi (Aug 09 2017 at 12:10):
Hi all, the LOINC codes for different types of blood pressure qualifiers which are a combination of artery, side , systolic or diastolic, body position (sitting, standing or lying) and method are not available. For example, LOINC code is displayed for 'Brachial artery - right systolic blood pressure' which is a combination of parameters artery+side+systolic. But, the method (whether it is palpation, doppler or by using sphygmomanometer) and body position are missing. I need the blood pressure qualifiers which includes all the parameters artery+side+systolic or diastolic+body position+method. Kindly suggest a solution. Thank you
Eric Haas (Aug 09 2017 at 15:20):
LOINC has a lot of 'methodless codes'. Observation has the method element. see -
file:///Users/ehaas/Documents/FHIR/experimental-build/publish/observation-definitions.html#Observation.method
Pranitha Sruthi (Aug 10 2017 at 04:45):
@Eric Haas The file is not getting opened.
Igor Sirkovich (Aug 10 2017 at 04:55):
http://www.hl7.org/fhir/observation-definitions.html#Observation.method
Pranitha Sruthi (Aug 10 2017 at 05:02):
I need LOINC codes for the blood pressure qualifiers which include all the parameters artery, side, systolic or diastolic, body position and method which are not available. Can you please suggest a solution?
Eric Haas (Aug 10 2017 at 14:56):
for Methods, they don't need to be LOINC codes, try SNOMED or some other code system.
Eric Haas (Aug 10 2017 at 14:57):
@Igor Sirkovich thanks
Michelle (Moseman) Miller (Aug 10 2017 at 16:11):
In addition to method being part of core (as noted above), there is also an extension for bodyPosition: http://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-observation-bodyposition.html
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