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Overview

Representing a patient’s smoking behavior through the core FHIR Observation Resource. The profile restricts observation code to be set in 72166-2 Tobacco smoking status NHIS (LOINC). Each Observation has next elements:
  • a status
  • a category code of ‘social-history’
  • a code for smoking observation
  • a patient
  • a date representing when the smoking status was recorded
  • a result value code for smoking status
Profile specific implementation guidance: This resource conforms to USCDI V2 profile for Observation - refer to US Core Observation Profile. Observation response will be provided in JSON (refers to Capability Statement) format as per FHIR standard R4 version.

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Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

Observationmust support these elements:
  • status
  • Slices for category
    • category:SocialHistory
  • code
  • subject
  • effectiveDateTime
  • valueCodeableConcept
The syntax used to describe the interactions is described here. The following search parameters and search parameter combinations SHALL be supported: SHALL support searching for all Observation for a patient using the patient and code search parameters:
  • including optional support for OR search on code (e.g.code={system|}[code],{system|}[code])
GET [base url]/Observation?patient={Type/}[id]&code=http://loinc.org|72166-2 The response to any search operation is always a list of resources in a Bundle or an Operation Outcome.

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Observation By Patient Id

Search for Observation by patient. METHOD GET
PARAMS
[base url] - FHIR base url
[id] - Id for the Patient HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Observation By Id

Get Observation by ID. METHOD GET
or
PARAMS
[base url] - FHIR base url
{id} - Id for Observation resource HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Observation by patient and code

Get Observations for the specified patient and code search parameters METHOD GET
PARAMS
[base url] - FHIR base url
[id] - patient id
{Type/} - Type for the Reference. Example: Patient HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE: