Represents either a lab simple observation or the group of observations produced by a laboratory study.

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"laboratory" includes laboratory medicine and pathology

In the context of this Observation-laboratory-uv-ips profile, when the observation plays the role of a grouper of member sub-observations, the code represent the group (for instance a panel code). In case no code is available, at least a text shall be provided.

• val-1: if no "related" element is present then Observation must have a" value"
  hasValue() or related.exists

The specimen is often implied by the observation code. In the context of this Observation-laboratory-uv-ips profile, specimen should be provided only when it is not implied by the Observation.code, and when further information about the specimen needs to be captured (such as specimen source body site). In case of a laboratory panel/study using a single specimen , which needs further description (like a CSF microbiology study), the specimen is introduced by this element. In case of a dynamic function test using multiple specimens, each specimen shall be further described, if needed, within the sub-observation that was produced on this specimen.

This element is used in the context of international patient summary when there is a need to group a collection of observations, because they belong to the same panel, or because they share a common interpretation comment, or a common media attachment (illustrative image or graph). In these cases, the current observation profiled as observation-laboratory-uv-trillium2 is the grouper, and its set of sub-observations are related observations using the type "has-member" and the profile observation-member-laboratory-uv-ips.

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For a discussion on the ways Observations can be assembled in groups together see Notes below.

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derived-from

This observation is a member of a multiple observations panel or study.

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In this profile designed for the IPS, this element distinguishes between observations performed by a laboratory and observations obtained from the ordering party, which are just included in the summary to support the interpretation of the lab observations.

The specimen is often implied by the observation code. In the context of this Observation-member-laboratory-uv-ips profile, specimen should be provided only when it is not implied by the Observation.code, and when further information about the specimen needs to be captured (such as specimen source body site).

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In the context of this Observation-attachment-uv-ips profile, the attachment is used to carry an image. Therefore in most cases there is no real observation code, and only the text element iis used to identify the type of image that is carried.