DiagnosticReport

Clinical

The findings and interpretation of diagnostic tests performed on patients, groups of patients, devices, and locations, and/or specimens derived from these. The report includes clinical context such as requesting and provider information, and some mix of atomic results, images, textual and coded interpretations, and formatted representation of diagnostic reports.

DiagnosticReport is a FHIR R4 Clinical resource — a diagnostic report - a combination of request information, atomic results, images. It defines 32 elements and supports 25 search parameters, and is referenced from 21 elements across other resources.

Official spec

Path	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
DiagnosticReport	0..*	—	A Diagnostic report - a combination of request information, atomic results, images, interpretation, as well as formatted reports
.idΣ	0..1	String	Logical id of this artifact
.metaΣ	0..1	Meta	Metadata about the resource
.implicitRules?!Σ	0..1	uri	A set of rules under which this content was created
.language	0..1	code	Language of the resource content Bindinglanguages(preferred)
.text	0..1	Narrative	Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation
.contained	0..*	Resource	Contained, inline Resources
.extension	0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
.modifierExtension?!	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored
.identifierΣ	0..*	Identifier	Business identifier for report
.basedOn	0..*	Reference(CarePlan \| ImmunizationRecommendation \| MedicationRequest \| NutritionOrder \| ServiceRequest)	What was requested
.status?!Σ	1..1	code	registered \| partial \| preliminary \| final + Bindingdiagnostic-report-status(required)
.categoryΣ	0..*	CodeableConcept	Service category Bindingdiagnostic-service-sections(example)
.codeΣ	1..1	CodeableConcept	Name/Code for this diagnostic report Bindingreport-codes(preferred)
.subjectΣ	0..1	Reference(Patient \| Group \| Device \| Location)	The subject of the report - usually, but not always, the patient
.encounterΣ	0..1	Reference(Encounter)	Health care event when test ordered
.effective[x]Σ	0..1	dateTime \| Period	Clinically relevant time/time-period for report
.issuedΣ	0..1	instant	DateTime this version was made
.performerΣ	0..*	Reference(Practitioner \| PractitionerRole \| Organization \| CareTeam)	Responsible Diagnostic Service
.resultsInterpreterΣ	0..*	Reference(Practitioner \| PractitionerRole \| Organization \| CareTeam)	Primary result interpreter
.specimen	0..*	Reference(Specimen)	Specimens this report is based on
.result	0..*	Reference(Observation)	Observations
.imagingStudy	0..*	Reference(ImagingStudy)	Reference to full details of imaging associated with the diagnostic report
.mediaΣ	0..*	BackboneElement	Key images associated with this report
.id	0..1	String	Unique id for inter-element referencing
.extension	0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
.modifierExtension?!Σ	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized
.comment	0..1	string	Comment about the image (e.g. explanation)
.linkΣ	1..1	Reference(Media)	Reference to the image source
.conclusion	0..1	string	Clinical conclusion (interpretation) of test results
.conclusionCode	0..*	CodeableConcept	Codes for the clinical conclusion of test results Bindingclinical-findings(example)
.presentedForm	0..*	Attachment	Entire report as issued

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