Stream: implementers
Topic: Patient social history like married, children, resource
Nath (Apr 16 2020 at 18:11):
Hello Implementers, As part of UI, I am supposed to collect information about patient like marital status, num of children, education, living with spouse etc.. I see https://www.hl7.org/fhir/observation.html says about "Social history like tobacco use, family support, or cognitive status" but I am not seeing any fields in observation that can represent the above fields. Can you please kindly suggest what FHIR resource to use for this?
thanks for your help
Michele Mottini (Apr 16 2020 at 18:14):
Marital status is part of Patient: http://hl7.org/fhir/patient-definitions.html#Patient.maritalStatus
Michele Mottini (Apr 16 2020 at 18:15):
Observations would have a code specifying what they are about (eg number of children) and a value[x] with the corresponding value (eg valueInteger: 3)
Lloyd McKenzie (Apr 16 2020 at 18:48):
I.e. each of the pieces of information you're capturing will be a distinct Observation instance.
Nath (Apr 16 2020 at 19:03):
thanks @Michele Mottini and @Lloyd McKenzie .
maritalStatus = patient.maritalStatus
num of children = observation with code
living with spouse = observation . Are there any valueset already defined in FHIR ?
education = I see https://www.hl7.org/fhir/v3/EducationLevel/cs.html. So, I can use the code from education level and use in observation.
Am I on the right track ?. thanks for your quick help. appreciate it.
Michele Mottini (Apr 16 2020 at 19:49):
That education level value set can be used as the value of the observation. For the codes look at LOINC - eg https://loinc.org/LL836-8/, https://loinc.org/85722-7/
Nath (Apr 16 2020 at 20:21):
thanks @Michele Mottini .
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
