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FHIR Infrastructure Work Group | Maturity Level: 1 | Informative | Use Context: Any |
Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.
Extension | |||||||||||||
Element Id | Extension | ||||||||||||
Definition | The FHIR type of a property - used on the value property of a primitive type (for which there is no type in the FHIR typing system), and Element.id, Resource.id, and Extension.url. All of these have a non-FHIR type in thir structure definition, and this specifies the applicable FHIR type. | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 0..1 | ||||||||||||
Comments | This is in effect, compiler magic for the typing system. | ||||||||||||
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Extension.id | |||||||||||||
Element Id | Extension.id | ||||||||||||
Definition | Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces. | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 0..1 | ||||||||||||
Type | string | ||||||||||||
Extension.extension | |||||||||||||
Element Id | Extension.extension | ||||||||||||
Definition | An Extension | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 0..0 | ||||||||||||
Type | Extension | ||||||||||||
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Slicing | This element introduces a set of slices. The slicing rules are:
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Extension.url | |||||||||||||
Element Id | Extension.url | ||||||||||||
Definition | Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL. | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 1..1 | ||||||||||||
Type | uri | ||||||||||||
Comments | 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. | ||||||||||||
Fixed Value | http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type | ||||||||||||
Extension.value[x] | |||||||||||||
Element Id | Extension.value[x] | ||||||||||||
Definition | Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility for a list). | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 1..1 | ||||||||||||
Terminology Binding | A version specific list of the data types defined by the FHIR specification for use as an element type (any of the FHIR defined data types). The codes SHALL be taken from DataType | ||||||||||||
Type | uri | ||||||||||||
[x] Note | See Choice of Data Types for further information about how to use [x] | ||||||||||||
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