antibioticAntibiotic: "A substance, such as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by or derived from certain fungi, bacteria, and other organisms, that can destroy or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms." - The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. This association identifies the antibiotic substance used to test the degree of susceptibility of the microorganism to that substance.
minimumInhibitoryConcentrationThe minimum inhibitory dilution of the serum or body fluid, which inhibits reproduction of the patient's infecting organism. Fluid is drawn from the patient who is undergoing antibiotic therapy. Samples of the fluid is diluted between 1:2 and 1:16 and a sample of the infecting organism is cultured in each of the diluted samples."Contains the value observed by the observation producer.... It is not a required field because some systems will report only the Interpretation Codes.... This field may repeat for multipart, single answer results." - HL7 Version 2.8, OBX-5.
referenceRangeAnitbiotic Sensitivity observations generally do not have a reference range, so the inherited reference range is being constrained out. FHIR and CIMI both are designed so any Observation can have a reference range, but generally only numeric observations use reference ranges.
