Stream: implementers
Topic: Lab panels
Floyd Eisenberg (Jun 11 2019 at 13:44):
This question may already be answered but I can't find it and I have received different answers depending on who I ask. For a laboratory chemistry panel (potassium, sodium, bicarbonate, creatinine, glucose) I can use USCore R4 observation-lab with the panel as the code and each individual test as a component, OR I can list each test separately as an observation-lab. The fact holding these results together is that they are from the same specimen so it seems using components may be helpful. Can someone confirm which is the best approach when requesting retrieve of such data?
Grahame Grieve (Jun 11 2019 at 15:38):
they should be different observations, not components. They have their own status and process etc.
Floyd Eisenberg (Jun 11 2019 at 15:41):
As I thought - but multiple observations in one Laboratory report? or multiple Laboratory reports? (https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/US-Core-R4/StructureDefinition-us-core-diagnosticreport-lab.html)
Grahame Grieve (Jun 11 2019 at 15:42):
typically a lab would report that as one diagnostic report and a set of observations. But there's no rule to that effect that I know of
Rob Hausam (Jun 11 2019 at 15:52):
Agree with Grahame, on both counts - that would be a typical (and very likely the best) approach, but we don't have any rules that I know of that say you must do it that way.
Floyd Eisenberg (Jun 11 2019 at 15:57):
Thanks Grahame and Rob - Trying to consider the best way to express the example for QI-Core (for next ballot)
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