This section makes use of the linking, severity, clinical status and comment content specifications defined elsewhere in the technical framework. In HL7 RIM parlance, observations about a problem, complaint, symptom, finding, diagnosis, or functional limitation of a patient is the event (moodCode='EVN') of observing () that problem. The of the observation comes from a controlled vocabulary representing such things. The contained within the describes the method of determination from yet another controlled vocabulary. An example appears below in the figure below.
Either a code with its attributes @displayName, @codeSystem, @codeSystemName and @code or a nullFlavor is required.