This section assembles relevant observation results collected on the patient or produced
on in-vitro biologic specimens collected from the patient. Some of these results may
be laboratory results, others may be anatomic pathology results, others, radiology
results, and others, clinical results.
The structured, machine-processable content of this section is
sorted out between as many Result Organizer entries as needed. One Result Organizer
entry groups results, which have a common context of production:
- common specialty (imaging, bacteriology, serology, chemistry, surgical pathology,
clinical, radiology ...),
- common overall interpretation, (which interprets the set of results of the Organizer),
- common
biologic specimen for in vitro diagnostic observations,
- common associated illustrative image.
The optional author and informant elements of the section are used when necessary
to convey the provenance and authoring of the section content in case it is different
from what is announced in the CDA header.
In case this section assembles results from
multiple authors (e.g.; results authored by a clinical laboratory, and results produced
by a radiology center), the authors are listed in the section, and each Result Organizer
of the section indicates its own author(s).