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FHIR Infrastructure Work Group | Maturity Level: 1 | Informative | Use Context: Any |
Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.
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Element Id | Extension | ||||||||||||
Definition | Provides a rendered version of the value intended for human display. For example, a sensitive identifier (e.g. social security number) partially obscured by asterisks; a drivers licence number with dashes inserted; a date formatted as MMM dd, yyyy; etc. | ||||||||||||
Cardinality | 0..1 | ||||||||||||
Comments | In some cases, this extension may be present and the value won't be present. For example if the recipient only has permission to see a partially masked view of a value. The rendering may be realm-specific. (E.g. the use of ',' vs. '.' when rendering numbers.). | ||||||||||||
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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/rendered-value | ||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||
Type | string | ||||||||||||
[x] Note | See Choice of Data Types for further information about how to use [x] | ||||||||||||
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