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Indicates whether the concept that is the target should be interpreted as itself, or whether it should be expanded to include its child concepts, or both when it is included in the source domain/valueset. Deprecation Comment: Deprecated as per 11/2008 Harmonization cleanup; internal and obsolete HL7 usage, no longer used.
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="v3-ConceptGenerality"/> <meta> <lastUpdated value="2015-03-23T00:00:00.000+11:00"/> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-shareable-definition"/> </meta> <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- Snipped for brevity --></div> </text> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/ConceptGenerality"/> <version value="2015-03-23"/> <name value="v3 Code System ConceptGenerality"/> <publisher value="HL7, Inc"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="url"/> <value value="http://hl7.org"/> </telecom> </contact> <description value=" Indicates whether the concept that is the target should be interpreted as itself, or whether it should be expanded to include its child concepts, or both when it is included in the source domain/valueset. Deprecation Comment: Deprecated as per 11/2008 Harmonization cleanup; internal and obsolete HL7 usage, no longer used."/> <status value="active"/> <experimental value="false"/> <date value="2015-03-23"/> <define> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-oid"> <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.24"/> </extension> <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ConceptGenerality"/> <caseSensitive value="true"/> <concept> <code value="A"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="Abstract"/> <definition value="Include only the descendents of this concept in the domain or value set, not the concept itself."/> </concept> <concept> <code value="L"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="Leaf"/> <definition value="Include only the concept itself in the domain or value set. Do not include descendents of the concept."/> </concept> <concept> <code value="S"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="Specializable"/> <definition value="Include both the concept and its descendents as possible values in the domain or value set."/> </concept> </define> </ValueSet>
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.