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Investigation Results Section

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Investigation Results Section Content

The Investigation results section carries information about investigation results for the patient. PRSB Elements should be formatted as subheadings in any HTML sent:

Section Description Card. MRO* FHIR Target and Guidance
Investigation results A record of investigations and procedures requested, results and plans. 0 to 1 O Carried in the CodeableConcept of Composition.section.code FHIR element.
PRSB Element Description Card. MRO* FHIR Target and Guidance
Investigation The investigation performed O The procedure name in text and where supported a SNOMED CT concept from 71388002 Procedure (procedure) hierarchy or Procedure with explicit context (situation)129125009. Carried in the FHIR element Procedure.code See Constructing Procedure Lists (Procedure name)
Investigation result For each investigation, the result of the investigation (this includes the result value, with unit of observation and reference interval where applicable and date, and plans for acting upon investigation results. 0 to many O If possible, this should include only results which are important or relevant to communicate to the GP. Hence health professional may need to select them. Text only. (Note that work is underway to standardise recording of pathology investigation results, which will inform content under this heading.) Where the text is format from a actual report the HTML <pre> tag is used for indicating preformatted text. The code tag surrounds the code being marked up. HTML viewers normally render pre text in a fixed-pitched font, with whitespace intact, and without word wrap.
* M=Mandatory R=Required O=Optional

Example Investigation Results Section

Coded Resources

This text section should be linked to the following FHIR Resources to provide the textual information in a coded format.

  • The ITK3 FHIR Outpatient Letter does not currently support coded investigation results.
Tags: fhir

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