Battery

A battery is a type of entry that represents a set of closely related laboratory observations. The components of a battery should have a generally accepted clinical, functional or logical relationship to one another. In Event Mood a battery contains separate valued observations for each of its subcomponents. In Definition Mood a battery defines a set of required and optional subcomponents. A request for battery may be represented as a single observation in Request Mood with a code that refers to the defined set of subcomponents. Examples include blood pressure, full blood count, chemistry panel.

This glossary item is based on v3. The wording may have been extended by later edits to provide additional detail.