Stream: implementers
Topic: Observation comment without any measured value
Dharani Ranasinghe (Feb 11 2021 at 11:48):
Can we use the Observation profile to send only a comment value. Example scenario would be, nurse mey add a comment value telling that the child was not cooperate enough to measure the weight and keep the value as empty. So can we use Observation profiles to send that type of information ? I know that observation.note attribute is there to use to send the comment value. But I need to know for this type of specific sceanario whether we can use an observation type profile.
Lloyd McKenzie (Feb 11 2021 at 15:29):
It's totally fine to have an Observation with a code but no value - that's what dataAbsentReason is for, and yes you could specify a 'note' at the same time.
Dharani Ranasinghe (Feb 12 2021 at 12:30):
Lloyd McKenzie said:
It's totally fine to have an Observation with a code but no value - that's what dataAbsentReason is for, and yes you could specify a 'note' at the same time.
But for dataAbsentReason we can have only a codable concept. But in our case, the care giver enters a text value and it can contain different information where it is hard to represent using a code.
Lloyd McKenzie (Feb 12 2021 at 14:17):
CodeableConcept includes CodeableConcept.text
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