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Whether the patient needs an interpreter
<StructureDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="patient-interpreterRequired"/> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/patient-interpreterRequired"/> <name value="Whether the patient needs an interpreter"/> <display value="interpreterRequired"/> <status value="draft"/> <publisher value="HL7"/> <date value="2016-08-11T17:02:54+10:00"/> <description value="This Patient requires an interpreter to communicate healthcare information to the practitioner."/> <fhirVersion value="1.6.0"/> <mapping> <identity value="rim"/> <uri value="http://hl7.org/v3"/> <name value="RIM Mapping"/> </mapping> <kind value="complex-type"/> <abstract value="false"/> <contextType value="resource"/> <context value="Patient"/> <type value="Extension"/> <baseDefinition value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension"/> <derivation value="constraint"/> <snapshot> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter"> <path value="Extension"/> <short value="Whether the patient needs an interpreter"/> <definition value="This Patient requires an interpreter to communicate healthcare information to the practitioner."/> <comments value="The Patient does not speak the default language of the organization, and hence requires an interpreter. If the patient has other languages in the Communications list, then that would be the type of interpreter required."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> <base> <path value="Extension"/> <min value="0"/> <max value="*"/> </base> <condition value="ele-1"/> <constraint> <key value="ele-1"/> <severity value="error"/> <human value="All FHIR elements must have a @value or children"/> <expression value="children().count() > id.count()"/> <xpath value="@value|f:*|h:div"/> </constraint> <constraint> <key value="ext-1"/> <severity value="error"/> <human value="Must have either extensions or value[x], not both"/> <expression value="extension.exists() != value.exists()"/> <xpath value="exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')])"/> </constraint> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.id"> <path value="Extension.id"/> <representation value="xmlAttr"/> <short value="xml:id (or equivalent in JSON)"/> <definition value="unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> <base> <path value="Element.id"/> <min value="0"/> <max value="*"/> </base> <type> <code value="string"/> </type> <mapping> <identity value="rim"/> <map value="n/a"/> </mapping> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.extension:extension"> <path value="Extension.extension"/> <name value="extension"/> <short value="Extension"/> <definition value="An Extension"/> <min value="0"/> <max value="0"/> <base> <path value="Element.extension"/> <min value="0"/> <max value="*"/> </base> <type> <code value="Extension"/> </type> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.url"> <path value="Extension.url"/> <representation value="xmlAttr"/> <short value="identifies the meaning of the extension"/> <definition value="Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL."/> <comments value="The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension."/> <min value="1"/> <max value="1"/> <base> <path value="Extension.url"/> <min value="1"/> <max value="1"/> </base> <type> <code value="uri"/> </type> <fixedUri value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/patient-interpreterRequired"/> <mapping> <identity value="rim"/> <map value="N/A"/> </mapping> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.valueBoolean"> <path value="Extension.valueBoolean"/> <short value="Value of extension"/> <definition value="Value of extension - may be a resource or one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility in the spec for list)."/> <min value="1"/> <max value="1"/> <base> <path value="Extension.value[x]"/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> </base> <type> <code value="boolean"/> </type> <mapping> <identity value="rim"/> <map value="N/A"/> </mapping> </element> </snapshot> <differential> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter"> <path value="Extension"/> <short value="Whether the patient needs an interpreter"/> <definition value="This Patient requires an interpreter to communicate healthcare information to the practitioner."/> <comments value="The Patient does not speak the default language of the organization, and hence requires an interpreter. If the patient has other languages in the Communications list, then that would be the type of interpreter required."/> <min value="0"/> <max value="1"/> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.extension:extension"> <path value="Extension.extension"/> <name value="extension"/> <max value="0"/> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.url"> <path value="Extension.url"/> <type> <code value="uri"/> </type> <fixedUri value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/patient-interpreterRequired"/> </element> <element id="Extension:whetherthepatientneedsaninterpreter.value[x]"> <path value="Extension.value[x]"/> <min value="1"/> <type> <code value="boolean"/> </type> </element> </differential> </StructureDefinition>
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.