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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-43959

Clarify that the LOINC 85354-9 is used for all blood pressure measurements

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    • US Core (FHIR)
    • 7.0.0-ballot
    • Cross-Group Projects
    • US Core Average Blood Pressure Profile
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      based on related tracker to Orders and Observation, FHIR-43940, there is no need for this clarification because average blood pressure and blood pressure are considered distinct observations.

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      based on related tracker to Orders and Observation, FHIR-43940 , there is no need for this clarification because average blood pressure and blood pressure are considered distinct observations.
    • Eric Haas/Hans Buitendijk: 16-0-0

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      To avoid confusion from the reader explain that the average blood pressure (or other types of blood pressure measurements) is treated as  a further refinement of the blood pressure profile and therefore use the LOINC 85354-9 is used for all blood pressure measurements and  additional LOINC codings to represent the types of blood pressure measurement such as average  value.   this is as an inherited constraint from the FHIR Core Blood Pressure Profile https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/observation.html
       

      implementations use this Resource when expressing the profile-specific concepts as structured data, they SHALL conform to the following profiles:

       
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      Created duplicate tracker to FHIR OO.

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