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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-14677

Category for core-characteristics such as pregnancy status.

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    • Resolution: Persuasive with Modification
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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • STU3
    • Orders & Observations
    • Observation
    • Terminologies - Valuesets
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      Next Step:

        • Write out the scope and boundaries around this
        • Create a list of the common values and send to Terminology Infrastructure WG for review of the current modeling and representation of the codes
          • Review big existing EHR-s values
          • Review national efforts values

      Prior disposition:

      1) Move Pregnancy status to "social-history" line item in introduction

      2) add guidance that not every observation may have a category and you will have to rely on the code

      3) add an example to clarify pregnancy observations

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      Next Step: Write out the scope and boundaries around this Create a list of the common values and send to Terminology Infrastructure WG for review of the current modeling and representation of the codes Review big existing EHR-s values Review national efforts values Prior disposition: 1) Move Pregnancy status to "social-history" line item in introduction 2) add guidance that not every observation may have a category and you will have to rely on the code 3) add an example to clarify pregnancy observations

    Description

      Should there be a category to represent core characteristics such as pregnancy status or personal characteristics such as eye color?

      *These are part of the use cases called out in the specification - *should these all be added as categories?

      Vital signs such as body weight, blood pressure, and temperature
      Laboratory Data like blood glucose, or an estimated GFR
      Imaging results like bone density or fetal measurements
      Devices Measurements such as EKG data or Pulse Oximetry data
      Clinical assessment tools such as APGAR or a Glasgow Coma Score
      Personal characteristics: such as eye-color
      Social history like tobacco use, family support, or cognitive status
      Core characteristics like pregnancy status, or a death assertion

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