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Operation Definition
{
"resourceType": "OperationDefinition",
"id": "CodeSystem-subsumes",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"
},
"url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/CodeSystem-subsumes",
"name": "Subsumption Testing",
"status": "draft",
"kind": "operation",
"date": "2016-08-11T17:02:54+10:00",
"publisher": "HL7 (FHIR Project)",
"contact": [
{
"telecom": [
{
"system": "other",
"value": "http://hl7.org/fhir"
},
{
"system": "email",
"value": "fhir@lists.hl7.org"
}
]
}
],
"description": "Test whether code \"sub\" is subsumed by code \"super\" given the semantics of subsumption in the underlying code system",
"code": "subsumes",
"system": false,
"type": [
"CodeSystem"
],
"instance": true,
"parameter": [
{
"name": "codeA",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The \"sub\" code that is to be tested. If a code is provided, a system must be provided",
"type": "code"
},
{
"name": "codeB",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The \"super\" code that is to be validated. If a code is provided, a system must be provided",
"type": "code"
},
{
"name": "system",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The system in which subsumption testing is to be performed. This must be provided unless the operation is invoked on a code system instance",
"type": "uri"
},
{
"name": "version",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The version of the system, if one was provided in the source data",
"type": "string"
},
{
"name": "codingA",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The \"sub\" coding to test. If the coding system does not have to match the specified subsumption system, but the relationships between the systems must be well established",
"type": "Coding"
},
{
"name": "codingB",
"use": "in",
"min": 0,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "The \"super\" coding to test. If the coding system does not have to match the specified subsumption system, but the relationships between the systems must be well established",
"type": "Coding"
},
{
"name": "outcome",
"use": "out",
"min": 1,
"max": "1",
"documentation": "Whether \"sub\" is subsumed by \"super\". There are 4 possible codes to be returned: equivalent, subsumes, subsumed-by, and not-subsumed. If the server is unable to determine the relationship between the codes, then it returns an error (i.e. an OperationOutcome)",
"type": "code"
}
]
}
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.