A structured set of questions intended to guide the collection of answers. The questions are ordered and grouped into coherent subsets, corresponding to the structure of the grouping of the underlying questions.

To support structured, hierarchical registration of data gathered using digital forms and other questionnaires.

This records identifiers associated with this question set that are defined by business processes and/or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the resource itself is not appropriate (e.g. in CDA documents, or in written / printed documentation).

Need to allow connection to a wider workflow.

The version number assigned by the publisher for business reasons. It may remain the same when the resource is updated.

In some cases, separate resource instances might be created for each version (if an older version can be maintained once a new version exists).

The lifecycle status of the questionnaire as a whole.

The date that this questionnaire was last changed.

Organization or person responsible for developing and maintaining the questionnaire.

Conveys responsibility for the questions and their organization and also helps evaluate the questionnaire's "authority".

Contact details to assist a user in finding and communicating with the publisher.

The name or label associated with this questionnaire.

Used for display, searching.

Identifies a how this question or group of questions is known in a particular terminology such as LOINC.

Allows linking of the complete Questionnaire resources to formal terminologies. It's common for "pannels" of questions to be identified by a code.

Identifies the types of subjects that can be the subject of the questionnaire.

If none are specified, then the subject is unlimited.

The questions and groupings of questions that make up the questionnaire.

An identifier that is unique within the Questionnaire allowing linkage to the equivalent item in a QuestionnaireResponse resource.

QuestionnaireResponse does not require omitted items to be included and may have some items that repeat, so linkage based on position alone is not sufficient.

May be omitted if there is no expectation to link answers back to a Questionnaire. This ''can'' be a meaningful identifier (e.g. a LOINC code) but is not intended to have any meaning. GUIDs or sequential numbers are appropriate here.

Identifies a how this group of questions is known in a particular terminology such as LOINC.

Allows linking of groups of questions (and complete Questionnaire resources) to formal terminologies.

The code(s) for the "root" group apply to the questionnaire as a whole.

The name of a section, the text of a question or text content for a text item.

Identifies the type of questionnaire item this is - whether text for display, a grouping of other items or a particular type of data to be captured (string, integer, coded choice, etc.).

Defines the format in which the user is to be prompted for the answer.

Additional constraints on the type of answer can be conveyed by extensions.

If true, indicates that the item must be present in a "completed" QuestionnaireResponse. If false, the item may be skipped when answering the questionnaire.

Whether the item may occur multiple times in the instance, containing multiple sets of answers.

Items may be used to create set of (related) questions that can be repeated to give multiple answers to such a set.

Reference to a value set containing a list of codes representing permitted answers for the question.

LOINC defines many useful value sets for questionnaire response. See LOINC Answer Lists.

For a "choice" question, identifies one of the permitted answers for the question.

Allows text, questions and other groups to be nested beneath a question or group.

Reports can consist of complex nested groups.