# Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care
## Discharge Summary Release 0.02

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The content of this release is not comprehensive and is not fully validated and must not be used in live system implementations.
# Reference Model Abstract Class: OBSERVATION_ELEMENT
The OBSERVATION_ELEMENT class is a BOUND_DATA_ELEMENT whose coded meaning is constrained to represent a SNOMED CT finding situation or observable situation. Clinical findings are observations about a patient made by a Care Professional, patient, or a carer. Types of information represented by OBSERVATION_ELEMENT includes: clinical observations, clinical findings on examination, investigation results, decisions arrived at as a result of a synthesis of signs, symptoms, investigations (i.e. findings) and clinical knowledge, findings resulting from formal assessment procedures such as whether a patient has been assessed under a section of the Mental Health Act, administrative findings and events. The OBSERVATION_ELEMENT class is defined as abstract and therefore can only be instantiated only through one of its non-abstract specialisations. ## Specializes ## BOUND_DATA_ELEMENT