Specimen REST Endpoints

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Specimen

This topic describes information for the Specimen resource.

Overview

The Specimen resource provides information related to any sample to be used for diagnostic and environmental testing.

The Specimen resource is used for gathering, maintaining, and processing the specimen, and determining where the specimen originated.

This resource supports the US Core Specimen Profile from HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 6.1.

The following fields are returned if valued:

• ID
• Accession Identifier
• Type
• Subject
  • Reference (Patient)
• Received Time
• Collection
  • Collector
    • Reference (Practitioner)
  • Collected Date and Time
  • Body Site
• Container
  • Identifier
  • Type

Terminology Bindings

• Specimen.type

  Description: A code to identify the type of the specimen.

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: https://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 1306 Anatomic Pathology Specimen under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/{EHR source ID}/codeSet/1306

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 2052 General Laboratory Specimen Type under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/{EHR source ID}/codeSet/2052

• Specimen.collection.bodySite

  Description: A code representing the anatomic location from which the specimen was collected.

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: https://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 1028 Body Site under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/{EHR source ID}/codeSet/1028

• Specimen.container.type

  Description: A code representing the type of container associated with the specimen.

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: https://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: For more information, see Code Set 2051 Container Type under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes and Systems.

    System: https://fhir.cerner.com/{EHR source ID}/codeSet/2051

Specimen

The operations from the Specimen category.

Get a list of specimens

Method: get

Path: /Specimen

Get a specimen by ID

Method: get

Path: /Specimen/{ID}