See [Comparison with other national and international IGs](comparison.html) for a comparison between AU Core profiles and profiles in other implementation guides.

### Usage scenarios

The following are supported usage scenarios for this profile:

- Query for pathology results for a patient
- Query for category of pathology results (e.g. all chemistry)
- Record or update pathology results belonging to a patient


### Profile specific implementation guidance
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- To represent the result of a specialist or other diagnostic (non imaging or pathology) test, see the [AU Core Diagnostic Result Observation](StructureDefinition-au-core-diagnosticresult.html) profile.