---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Specimen Status"
codesystem: "specimen-status"
---
# Specimen Status

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/specimen-status
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: SpecimenStatus
- **Title**: Specimen Status
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Codes providing the status/availability of a specimen.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| available | Available | The physical specimen is present and in good condition. |
| unavailable | Unavailable | There is no physical specimen because it is either lost, destroyed or consumed. |
| unsatisfactory | Unsatisfactory | The specimen cannot be used because of a quality issue such as a broken container, contamination, or too old. |
| entered-in-error | Entered in Error | The specimen was entered in error and therefore nullified. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="specimen-status"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="oo"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="2"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/specimen-status"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.472"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.465"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.426"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="SpecimenStatus"/>
  <title value="Specimen Status"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Codes providing the status/availability of a specimen."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/specimen-status"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="available"/>
    <display value="Available"/>
    <definition value="The physical specimen is present and in good condition."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unavailable"/>
    <display value="Unavailable"/>
    <definition value="There is no physical specimen because it is either lost, destroyed or consumed."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unsatisfactory"/>
    <display value="Unsatisfactory"/>
    <definition value="The specimen cannot be used because of a quality issue such as a broken container, contamination, or too old."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="entered-in-error"/>
    <display value="Entered in Error"/>
    <definition value="The specimen was entered in error and therefore nullified."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```