Extension-iso21090-nullFlavor.json

NI | OTH | NINF | PINF | UNK | ASKU | NAV | NASK | TRC | MSK | NA | QS

{
  "resourceType": "ExtensionDefinition",
  "id": "iso21090-nullFlavor",
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/iso21090-nullFlavor",
  "name": "NI | OTH | NINF | PINF | UNK | ASKU | NAV | NASK | TRC | MSK | NA | QS",
  "publisher": "HL7",
  "contact": [
    {
      "telecom": [
        {
          "system": "url",
          "value": "http://www.hl7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description": "If the value is not a proper value, indicates the reason.",
  "status": "draft",
  "date": "2012-06-24",
  "mapping": [
    {
      "identity": "v2",
      "uri": "http://hl7.org/v2",
      "name": "HL7 v2"
    },
    {
      "identity": "rim",
      "uri": "http://hl7.org/v3",
      "name": "RIM"
    }
  ],
  "contextType": "datatype",
  "context": [
    "Any"
  ],
  "element": [
    {
      "path": "Extension",
      "short": "NI | OTH | NINF | PINF | UNK | ASKU | NAV | NASK | TRC | MSK | NA | QS",
      "definition": "If the value is not a proper value, indicates the reason.",
      "comments": "Considerable care must be used when using nullFlavor in this context of FHIR - more than any other concept, this is tied to the way v3 works, and FHIR is quite different. For instance, there is no notion of a \"proper value\" as opposed to any other value in FHIR. a NullFlavor should be understood to mean, \"why information is missing\", and the nulFlavors OTH, NINF, PINF, and TRC should not be used.",
      "min": 0,
      "max": "1",
      "type": [
        {
          "code": "code"
        }
      ],
      "binding": {
        "name": "NullFlavor",
        "isExtensible": false,
        "conformance": "required",
        "description": "A collection of codes specifying why a valid value is not present",
        "referenceReference": {
          "reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/NullFlavor"
        }
      },
      "mapping": [
        {
          "identity": "v2",
          "map": "n/a"
        },
        {
          "identity": "rim",
          "map": "ANY.nullFlavor"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}