[Category: Clinical Act Statements]The article
Clinical act statements, provides an overview of the clinical statements that form the "core" of a
CDA document.
Clinical statements begin with an
XML element of:
act,
encounter,
procedure,
observation,
substanceAdministration,
supply, or
organizer.
Clinical act statements can be nested within each other to capture relationships between them. However, this nesting is not done directly. You can not place the elements listed above directly under each other - there is
no observation/observation,
encounter/procedure, etc. XML element path in a CDA document.
Instead, clinical act statements are connected to each other via
act relationship elements. There are five such XML elements in CDA:
The most commonly used - and also the most generic - act relationship element is the
entryRelationship element. Refer to the article
The entryRelationship element for additional information and examples.
The
referenceRange act relationship element is only used within the
observation clinical act statement.
In the context of clinical act statements in the structured entries of the CDA body (as opposed to in the CDA header or directly under
section elements), the
component act relationship element is only used within
oraganizer clinical act statement.
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