Stream: implementers
Topic: Observation from multiple specimen
Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 05 2021 at 16:46):
I've seen the example observation for creatinine and I have a question, I hope there's guidance but I can't find it:
If the observation value is obtained from several specimen, is there a preferred way to express this? Observation only supports one specimen. I could use several Observations and an overall output observation.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Oct 05 2021 at 16:47):
While looking at this, I saw that DiagnosticReport supports 0..* specimen. Is this supposed to mean "the following specimen were somehow used in the production of this report"?
Eric Haas (Oct 06 2021 at 01:46):
Creatinine clearance test?
Eric Haas (Oct 06 2021 at 01:49):
That is a calculated values from two measurements so use two Observations and group them using derivedFrom into a single Observation.
Josh Mandel (Oct 06 2021 at 02:34):
This has been an ongoing issue for #Orders and Observation WG
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