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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": "2016-12-06T12:22:34+11:00", "publisher": "HL7 (FHIR Project)", "contact": [ { "telecom": [ { "system": "url", "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 (see hierarchyMeaning)", "code": "subsumes", "resource": [ "CodeSystem" ], "system": false, "type": true, "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. 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. 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" } ] }
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