oxygenProvisionDeviceQualifierIf the patient was receiving supplemental oxygen during the time that the patient’s blood oxygen saturation level or respiration rate was measured, this class will indicate what kind of device was being used to administer the oxygen. This information is important to know when interpreting the value of the primary observation. The value of this property is constrained to be one of a set of codes from the SNOMED-CT coding system that categorizes the kind of device that was used to administer supplemental oxygen.
patientStateExertionQualifierHeart Rate, Blood Pressure, Respiration, and Blood Oxygen levels naturally vary depending on whether the patient is at rest, or during or shortly after exercise. This property records an sub-observation of whether the patient was at rest, exercising, or recently had been exercising at the time of the measurement.
supplementalOxygenRateQualifierIf the patient was receiving supplemental oxygen during the time that the patient’s blood oxygen saturation level was measured, this property will indicate the amount of supplemental oxygen that the patient was receiving. This information is important to know when interpreting the value of the primary observation, that of the patient’s arterial blood oxygen saturation. Supplemental oxygen is generally expressed in terms of liters (of oxygen flow) per minute. While liters per minute is technically a ratio, this measurement is treated as a simple measurement with the unit of L/min (liters per minute).
valueThis property contains the result, or value of the clinical Observation. In the generic clinical Observation class, the data type for this property can be anything. Blood oxygen saturation is expressed as a percentage of the total hemoglobin that is oxygen-saturated. Therefore, this property has been re-defined to constrain the data type to be a Physical Quantity (where the unit of measure is per cent).
FHIM::ClinicalObservation::ObservationStatement