Specimen
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A sample of tissue, body fluid, food or other substance that is collected or acquired to support the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or its symptoms.
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Attributs
| Attribut | Type | Multiplicité | Note sur l’attribut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specimen Identifier | Identifier | 0..1 | The unique alphanumeric value of the identifier (e.g., A789010, 123456) assigned by the laboratory to a specimen (e.g., an accession number). |
| Specimen Type Code | Codeable Concept | 1 | Uniquely specifies a substance that being sampled or tested (e.g., nasopharyngeal swab, whole blood, serum, urine, wound swab).
Value Set: https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/specimentypecode |
| Specimen Status Code | Codeable Concept | 1 | Uniquely specifies the current state of the specimen (e.g., available, unavailable, entered-in-error).
Value Set: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/specimen-status |
| Specimen Role Class Code | Codeable Concept | 0..1 | Uniquely specifies the specimen’s functional role in relation to other specimens (e.g., parent, child, pooled, derived).
Value Set: To be developed. |
| Specimen Preparation Type Code | Codeable Concept | 0..1 | Uniquely specifies a form or preparation of the specimen used for analysis or reporting (for example, block, section, smear, slide).
Value Set: To be developed. |
| Specimen Life Cycle Stage Code | Codeable Concept | 0..1 | Uniquely specifies the current stage of the specimen within the laboratory workflow (e.g., collected, received, in testing, in storage, disposed).
Value Set: To be developed. |
| Specimen Special Handling Instruction | String | 0..1 | The directions for handling, processing or storing the specimen prior to analysis. |
| Specimen Received Date Time | Date Time | 0..1 | The date and time the specimen was received by the laboratory. |
Relations
| Classe d’origine | Multiplicité d’origine | Relation | Classe de destination | Multiplicité de destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Procedure | 0..1 | focuses on | Specimen | 0..* |
| Specimen Imaging Event | 0..* | subject of | Specimen | 1 |
| Specimen | 0..* | collected in | Encounter | 1 |
| Observation | 0..* | about | Specimen | 0..1 |
| Specimen | 1 | has | Specimen Processing | 0..* |
| Specimen | 0..* | associated with | Diagnostic Report | 0..* |
| Specimen | 0..* | subject of | Specimen Collection | 0..1 |
| Patient | 1 | subject of | Specimen | 0..* |
| Specimen Assessment | 0..* | for | Specimen | 1 |
| Specimen | 0..* | has (aggregation) | Specimen | 0..* |
| Specimen Container | 0..* | contains | Specimen | 1 |
| Service Request | 0..1 | defines | Specimen | 0..* |
| Specimen | 0..* | associated with | Imaging Study Series | 0..* |
| Specimen | 0..1 | has (composition) | Clinical Annotation | 0..* |
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Institut canadien d’information sur la santé. Specimen. Consulté le 02 novembre 2026.
