v2+ Vocabulary
0.3.0 - Working Draft to present the concept ideas (FO)
v2+ Vocabulary
0.3.0 - Working Draft to present the concept ideas (FO)
v2+ Vocabulary - Local Development build (v0.3.0) built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) Build Tools. See the Directory of published versions
| Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/ValueSet/hl7VSinterpretationCodeV120 | Version: 1.2.0 | |||
| Active as of 2025-08-05 | Computable Name: Hl7VSinterpretationCodeV120 | |||
| Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.78 | ||||
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A categorical assessment, providing a rough qualitative interpretation of the observation value, such as “normal”/ “abnormal”,”low” / “high”, “better” / “worse”, “susceptible” / “resistant”, “expected”/ “not expected”. The value set is intended to be for ANY use where coded representation of an interpretation is needed. Notes: This is being communicated in v2.x in OBX-8, in v3 in ObservationInterpretation (CWE) in R1 (Representative Realm) and in FHIR Observation.interpretation. Historically these values come from the laboratory domain, and these codes are extensively used. The value set binding is extensible, so codes outside the value set that are needed for interpretation concepts (i.e. particular meanings) that are not included in the value set can be used, and these new codes may also be added to the value set and published in a future version.
References
This value set is not used here; it may be used elsewhere (e.g. specifications and/or implementations that use this content)
http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120
Expansion performed internally based on codesystem Abnormal Flags (2.3 - 1.2.0) v1.2.0 (CodeSystem)
This value set contains 19 concepts
| Code | System | Display (en-US) | Definition |
| < | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Below absolute low-off instrument scale | Below absolute low-off instrument scale |
| > | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Above absolute high-off instrument scale | Above absolute high-off instrument scale |
| A | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Abnormal (applies to non-numeric results) | Abnormal (applies to non-numeric results) |
| AA | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Very abnormal | Very abnormal (applies to non-numeric units, analagous to panic limits for numeric units) |
| B | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Better | Better (use when direction not relevant) |
| D | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Significant change down | Significant change down |
| H | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Above high normal | Above high normal |
| HH | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Above upper panic limits | Above upper panic limits |
| I | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Intermediate | Intermediate (microbiology sensitivies only) |
| L | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Below low normal | Below low normal |
| LL | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Below lower panic limits | Below lower panic limits |
| MS | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Moderately sensitive | Moderately sensitive (microbiology sensitivies only) |
| N | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Normal | Normal (applies to non-numeric results) |
| R | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Resistant | Resistant (microbiology sensitivies only) |
| S | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Sensitive (microbiology sensitivies only) | Sensitive (microbiology sensitivies only) |
| U | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Significant change up | Significant change up |
| VS | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Very sensitive | Very sensitive (microbiology sensitivies only) |
| W | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | Worse | Worse--use when direction not relevant |
| null | http://terminology.hl7.org/v2plusvocab/CodeSystem/observationInterpretationV120 | No range defined, or normal ranges don't apply | No range defined, or normal ranges don't apply |
Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:
| Level | A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies |
| System | The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere) |
| Code | The code (used as the code in the resource instance) |
| Display | The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application |
| Definition | An explanation of the meaning of the concept |
| Comments | Additional notes about how to use the code |