A DiagnosticRequest should be able to carry one or more services ordered.

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    • Type: Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive
    • Priority: Medium
    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • DSTU2
    • Orders & Observations
    • DiagnosticRequest (see ServiceRequest) [deprecated]
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      clarify DiagnosticRequest.requisition description as proposed

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      clarify DiagnosticRequest.requisition description as proposed
    • Eric Haas/Kathy Walsh: 7-0-2
    • Enhancement
    • Non-substantive
    • DSTU2

      DiagnosticRequest.code 1..1

      In Europe, a lab request usually orders multiple tests and panels for the subject.
      V2 accommodated this requirement, with field ORC-4 "Placer Group Number", enabling to group multiple OBR/ORC pairs.
      V3 enabled an observation in RQO mood to include other observations in RQO mood.
      FHIR DiagnosticRequest misses this capability, currently.

      A diagnostic request should be able to group multiple diagnostic services (e.g; CBC, Urinalysis, chemistry panel, serology panel) ordered as one coherent set authored by the requester and requested to the same performer.

      One proposal to enable this is to set the cardinalities of DiagnosticRequest.code to 1..*, provided this does not break the workflow resources logic.

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            Reporter:
            Francois Macary
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