STU 3 Candidate
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StructureDefinition for implementationguide
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"short": "A set of rules about how FHIR is used",
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"definition": "A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed, and which must be understood when processing the content.",
"comments": "Asserting this rule set restricts the content to be only understood by a limited set of trading partners. This inherently limits the usefulness of the data in the long term. However, the existing health eco-system is highly fractured, and not yet ready to define, collect, and exchange data in a generally computable sense. Wherever possible, implementers and/or specification writers should avoid using this element as much as possible.",
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"short": "Language of the resource content",
"definition": "The base language in which the resource is written.",
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"short": "Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation",
"definition": "A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource, and may be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data, but is required to contain sufficient detail to make it \"clinically safe\" for a human to just read the narrative. Resource definitions may define what content should be represented in the narrative to ensure clinical safety.",
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"comments": "This should never be done when the content can be identified properly, as once identification is lost, it is extremely difficult (and context dependent) to restore it again.",
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"comments": "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"definition": "May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource, and that modifies the understanding of the element that contains it. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. In order to make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer is allowed to define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions.",
"comments": "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"short": "Absolute URL used to reference this Implementation Guide",
"definition": "An absolute URL that is used to identify this implementation guide when it is referenced in a specification, model, design or an instance. This SHALL be a URL, SHOULD be globally unique, and SHOULD be an address at which this implementation guide is (or will be) published.",
"requirements": "This is required to allow hosting Implementation Guides on multiple different servers, and to allow for the editorial process.",
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"short": "Logical id for this version of the Implementation Guide",
"definition": "The identifier that is used to identify this version of the Implementation Guide when it is referenced in a specification, model, design or instance. This is an arbitrary value managed by the Implementation Guide author manually.",
"requirements": "There may be multiple resource versions of the Implementation Guide that have this same identifier. The resource version id will change for technical reasons, whereas the stated version number needs to be under the author's control.",
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"short": "draft | active | retired",
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"short": "Name of the publisher (Organization or individual)",
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"comments": "Usually an organization, but may be an individual. This item SHOULD be populated unless the information is available from context.",
"requirements": "Helps establish the \"authority/credibility\" of the implementation guide. May also allow for contact.",
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"short": "Contact details of the publisher",
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"short": "xml:id (or equivalent in JSON)",
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"comments": "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"comments": "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
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"short": "Name of an individual to contact",
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"short": "Date for this version of the Implementation Guide",
"definition": "The date this version of the implementation guide was published. The date must change when the business version changes, if it does, and it must change if the status code changes. In addition, it should change when the substantive content of the implementation guide changes.",
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"definition": "The version of the FHIR specification on which this ImplementationGuide is based - this is the formal version of the specification, without the revision number, e.g. [publication].[major].[minor], which is 1.4.0 for this version.",
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"short": "Group of resources as used in .page.package",
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"short": "xml:id (or equivalent in JSON)",
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{
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],
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},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.dependency",
"short": "Another Implementation guide this depends on",
"definition": "Another implementation guide that this implementation depends on. Typically, an implementation guide uses value sets, profiles etc.defined in other implementation guides.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "BackboneElement"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.dependency.type",
"short": "reference | inclusion",
"definition": "How the dependency is represented when the guide is published.",
"comments": "For information about processing included guides, see [Including Guides]{implementationguide.html#include}.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"isSummary": true,
"binding": {
"strength": "required",
"description": "How a dependency is represented when the guide is published.",
"valueSetReference": {
"reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/guide-dependency-type"
}
}
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.dependency.uri",
"short": "Where to find dependency",
"definition": "Where the dependency is located.",
"comments": "When a guide is published, and the type is 'include', this will be a relative reference within the guide.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "uri"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package",
"short": "Group of resources as used in .page.package",
"definition": "A logical group of resources. Logical groups can be used when building pages.",
"min": 1,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "BackboneElement"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.name",
"short": "Name used .page.package",
"definition": "The name for the group, as used in page.package.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.description",
"short": "Human readable text describing the package",
"definition": "Human readable text describing the package.",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
]
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource",
"short": "Resource in the implementation guide",
"definition": "A resource that is part of the implementation guide. Conformance resources (value set, structure definition, conformance statements etc.) are obvious candidates for inclusion, but any kind of resource can be included as an example resource.",
"min": 1,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "BackboneElement"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.example",
"short": "If not an example, has it's normal meaning",
"definition": "Whether a resource is included in the guide as part of the rules defined by the guide, or just as an example of a resource that conforms to the rules and/or help implementers understand the intent of the guide.",
"comments": "Typically, conformance resources and knowledge resources are directly part of the implementation guide, with their normal meaning, and patient linked resources are usually examples. However this is not always true.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "boolean"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.name",
"short": "Human Name for the resource",
"definition": "A human assigned name for the resource. All resources SHOULD have a name, but the name may be extracted from the resource (e.g. ValueSet.name).",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.description",
"short": "Reason why included in guide",
"definition": "A description of the reason that a resource has been included in the implementation guide.",
"comments": "This is mostly used with examples to explain why it is present (though they can have extensive comments in the examples).",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
]
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.acronym",
"short": "Short code to identify the resource",
"definition": "A short code that may be used to identify the resource throughout the implementation guide.",
"comments": "This is used when generating schematrons from profiles, for example, but has other uses. Publishing tooling may autogenerate this value, but a human assigned value is more useful. This value must be unique within an implementation guide (across included guides as well).",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
]
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.source[x]",
"short": "Location of the resource",
"definition": "Where this resource is found.",
"comments": "Usually this is a relative URL that locates the resource within the implementation guide. If you authoring an implementation guide, and will publish it using the FHIR publication tooling, use a URI that may point to a resource, or to one of various alternative representations (e.g. spreadsheet). The tooling will convert this when it publishes it.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "uri"
},
{
"code": "Reference",
"profile": [
"http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Resource"
]
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.package.resource.exampleFor",
"short": "Resource this is an example of (if applicable)",
"definition": "Another resource that this resource is an example for. This is mostly used for resources that are included as examples of StructureDefinitions.",
"comments": "Examples:\n* StructureDefinition -> Any\n* ValueSet -> expansion\n* OperationDefinition -> Parameters\n* Questionnaire -> QuestionnaireResponse.",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "Reference",
"profile": [
"http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition"
]
}
]
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.global",
"short": "Profiles that apply globally",
"definition": "A set of profiles that all resources covered by this implementation guide must conform to.",
"comments": "See [Default Profiles](implementationguide.html#default) for a discussion of which resources are 'covered' by an implementation guide.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "BackboneElement"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.global.type",
"short": "Type this profiles applies to",
"definition": "The type of resource that all instances must conform to.",
"comments": "The type must match that of the profile that is referred to, but is made explicit here as a denormalization so that a system processing the implementation guide resource knows which resources the profile applies to even if the profile itself is not available.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"isSummary": true,
"binding": {
"strength": "required",
"description": "One of the resource types defined as part of FHIR.",
"valueSetReference": {
"reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/resource-types"
}
}
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.global.profile",
"short": "Profile that all resources must conform to",
"definition": "A reference to the profile that all instances must conform to.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "Reference",
"profile": [
"http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition"
]
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.binary",
"short": "Image, css, script, etc.",
"definition": "A binary file that is included in the implementation guide when it is published.",
"comments": "This is principally included for the FHIR publishing tool, but may be useful when extracting and reusing content from the implementation guide.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "uri"
}
]
},
{
"id": "page",
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page",
"short": "Page/Section in the Guide",
"definition": "A page / section in the implementation guide. The root page is the implementation guide home page.",
"comments": "Pages automatically become sections if they have sub-pages. By convention, the home page is called index.html.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "BackboneElement"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.source",
"short": "Where to find that page",
"definition": "The source address for the page.",
"comments": "The publishing tool will autogenerate source for list (source = n/a), and inject included implementations for include (source = uri of guide to include).",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "uri"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.name",
"short": "Short name shown for navigational assistance",
"definition": "A short name used to represent this page in navigational structures such as table of contents, bread crumbs, etc.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
],
"isSummary": true
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.kind",
"short": "page | example | list | include | directory | dictionary | toc | resource",
"definition": "The kind of page that this is. Some pages are autogenerated (list, example), and other kinds are of interest so that tools can navigate the user to the page of interest.",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"isSummary": true,
"binding": {
"strength": "required",
"description": "The kind of an included page.",
"valueSetReference": {
"reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/guide-page-kind"
}
}
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.type",
"short": "Kind of resource to include in the list",
"definition": "For constructed pages, what kind of resources to include in the list.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"binding": {
"strength": "required",
"description": "One of the resource types defined as part of FHIR.",
"valueSetReference": {
"reference": "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/resource-types"
}
}
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.package",
"short": "Name of package to include",
"definition": "For constructed pages, a list of packages to include in the page (or else empty for everything).",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"type": [
{
"code": "string"
}
]
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.format",
"short": "Format of the page (e.g. html, markdown, etc.)",
"definition": "The format of the page.",
"comments": "This is primarily for the publishing tool, that will convert all pages to html format. HTML pages are pre-processed, see xxxx.",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"type": [
{
"code": "code"
}
],
"binding": {
"strength": "required",
"description": "The mime type of an attachment. Any valid mime type is allowed.",
"valueSetUri": "http://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp13.txt"
}
},
{
"path": "ImplementationGuide.page.page",
"short": "Nested Pages / Sections",
"definition": "Nested Pages/Sections under this page.",
"comments": "The implementation guide breadcrumbs are generated from this structure.",
"min": 0,
"max": "*",
"contentReference": "#page"
}
]
}
}
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.
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