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V3-MDFAttributeType.xml

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Deprecation Comment: Deprecated as per 11/2008 Harmonization cleanup; internal and obsolete HL7 usage, no longer used.

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<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="v3-MDFAttributeType"/>
  <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/MDFAttributeType"/>
  <version value="2015-03-23"/>
  <name value="v3 Code System MDFAttributeType"/>
  <publisher value="HL7, Inc"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="  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:2.16.840.1.113883.5.74"/>
    </extension>
    <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/MDFAttributeType"/>
    <caseSensitive value="true"/>
    <concept>
      <code value="ADDR"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Address"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing the location at which an organization, person, or item may
         be found or reached."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="CD"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Code"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing some concept. Note that names of individual things are not
         considered concepts."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="COM"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Communication Address"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing communication addresses, such as telephones, fax, pagers,
         e-mail, Web-sites and other devices and their respective protocols. See also PHON."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="DESC"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Description"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing a statement used to describe something."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="DTTM"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Date and Time"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing a point in time at which an event happened or will happen.
         Levels of precision and variation are part of this concept and should usually not be specified
         in separate attributes."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="EXPR"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Formal Expression"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing formalized text that is to be evaluated primarily by computes.
         An attribute named &quot;constraint_text&quot; is most likely such a formal expression
         and should be renamed to &quot;constraint_expr&quot;."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="FRC"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Fraction"/>
      <definition value="For attributes that represent a fraction or proportion. The former attribute type PCT
         for &quot;percentage&quot; is superceded by FRC and is no longer permitted. See also QTY."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="ID"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Identifier"/>
      <definition value="For attributes that serve to identify some instance of an information model class. Note
         that real world Identifiers (e.g., SSN) exist not as attributes but as an association
         to a special information model class. The attribute type &quot;id&quot; without a prefix
         is reserved to be the main instance identifier of the class."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="IND"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Indicator"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing a specific condition as true or false."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="NBR"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Number"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing dimensionless numbers. Note that there is a big conceptual
         difference between integer numbers and floating point numbers. See also QTY."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="NM"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Name"/>
      <definition value="For attributes that represent a name by which an instance of the class is known."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="PHON"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Phone"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing telephone number of a telecommunication device.  See also
         COM."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="QTY"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Quantity"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing a quantity. The nature of the quantity must be further specified
         through the choice of data type and through additional constraints. For physical quantities
         (including elapsed time) the PQ data type must be used. For monetary amounts the MO data
         type must be used. Parallel unit attributes are not permitted in these cases. Counted
         objects are not physical quantities and the count nouns are not units of measure."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="TIME"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="General Timing"/>
      <definition value="A range of time between a start and an end time having a duration. The range may be infinite
         or undefined on either side."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="TMR"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Time Range"/>
      <definition value="A range of time between a start and an end time having a duration. The range may be infinite
         or undefined on either side."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="TXT"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Text"/>
      <definition value="For attributes representing non-descriptive, non-naming text not targeted to human interpretation.
         Formal expressions evaluated by computers should use the EXPR attribute type instead."/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="VALUE"/>
      <abstract value="false"/>
      <display value="Value"/>
      <definition value="For an attribute (e.g., Observation.value) that represents a value whose data type is
         determined dynamically and is not predefined by the static class diagram."/>
    </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.