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Determining whether to provide measurement as integer or decimal

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This section is under construction

The approach described in this section is pending customer’s approval and is possibly subject to change.

Given an observation codeand corresponding system from the ValueSet ehealth-observation-codes, how does one determine whether an observed quantity or reference range shall be stated as an integer or decimal? While a particular device might produce a decimal with a given precision for a measure, it is up to the client/solution to convert to the form expected by the infrastructure. Whether integer or decimal, the value is set inQuantity.value.

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