VitalSignsSection

Vital Signs Section

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The Vital Signs Section contains relevant vital signs for the context and use case of the document type, such as blood pressure (including average blood pressure), heart rate, respiratory rate, height, weight, body mass index, head circumference, pulse oximetry, temperature, and body surface area. The section should include notable vital signs such as the most recent, maximum and/or minimum, baseline, or relevant trends. Vital signs are represented in the same way as other results, but are aggregated into their own section to follow clinical conventions.

#### Templates Used Although open templates may contain any valid CDA content, the following templates are specifically called out by this template:

Required Entries: VitalSignsOrganizer or AverageBloodPressureOrganizer

Metadata

hl7.org/fhir
Canonical URL
http://hl7.org/cda/us/ccda/StructureDefinition/VitalSignsSection
ID
VitalSignsSection
Type
Base Definition
Section
Derivation
constraint
Mandatory and Must-Support Elements

Elements with cardinality > 0 or marked as Must Support (S)

PathCard.TypeFlagsDescription
templateId
1+
:section1..1
1+
templateId.root
1+
templateId.extension
1+
code
1+
Vital signs
code.code
1+
code.codeSystem
1+
title
1+
text
1+
entry.organizer
http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Organizer
1+
entry.organizer
http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Organizer
1+