73983-9
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 73983-9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | The expected value for this variable is the name of a section within a report. For example, "History of Past Illnesses", "Procedures" or "Diagnosis". Such a reporting strategy is less common than the traditional method of using nested OBR segments to organize sections within HL7 version 2 messages. Using the strategy with this variable, the section header OBX segment would then be followed by several OBX segments containing the results within that section. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | ACTIVE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| component | Report.section heading | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| property | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| system | XXX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| scale | Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| short name | DOC.MISC; MISC; Miscellaneous; Nominal; Other; Point in time; Random; Report section; Spec; To be specified in another part of the message; Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| class | DOC.MISC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| order vs. observation | Report section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| last updated | 2.69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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