R5 Final QA

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15.16.0 Population

Pharmacy

Work Group

Maturity Level: 3

Standards Status: Trial Use

Note to Implementers: This type is still undergoing development and review by the appropriate Workgroups. At this time, is considered only as a draft design not suitable for production implementation.

The Population structure defines TODO.

Note: the Population structure allows modifier extensions.

Structure

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Population	Σ D		Element	A definition of a set of people that apply to some clinically related context, for example people contraindicated for a certain medication Elements defined in Ancestors: id, extension, modifierExtension
age[x]	Σ	0..1		The age of the specific population
ageRange			Range
ageCodeableConcept			CodeableConcept
gender	Σ	0..1	CodeableConcept	The gender of the specific population
race	Σ	0..1	CodeableConcept	Race of the specific population
physiologicalCondition	Σ	0..1	CodeableConcept	The existing physiological conditions of the specific population to which this applies
Documentation for this format

Definition: XML | JSON

UML Diagram (Legend)

XML Template

<Population xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
 <!-- from Element: extension -->
 <age[x]><!-- 0..1 Range|CodeableConcept The age of the specific population --></age[x]>
 <gender><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept The gender of the specific population --></gender>
 <race><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Race of the specific population --></race>
 <physiologicalCondition><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept The existing physiological conditions of the specific population to which this applies --></physiologicalCondition>
</Population>

JSON Template

{
  // from Element: extension
  // age[x]: The age of the specific population. One of these 2:
  "ageRange" : { Range },
  "ageCodeableConcept" : { CodeableConcept },
  "gender" : { CodeableConcept }, // The gender of the specific population
  "race" : { CodeableConcept }, // Race of the specific population
  "physiologicalCondition" : { CodeableConcept } // The existing physiological conditions of the specific population to which this applies
}

Turtle Template

@prefix fhir: <http://hl7.org/fhir/> .

[
 # from Element: Element.extension
  # age[x] : 0..1 The age of the specific population. One of these 2
    fhir:age [  a fhir:Range ; Range ]
    fhir:age [  a fhir:CodeableConcept ; CodeableConcept ]
  fhir:gender [ CodeableConcept ] ; # 0..1 The gender of the specific population
  fhir:race [ CodeableConcept ] ; # 0..1 Race of the specific population
  fhir:physiologicalCondition [ CodeableConcept ] ; # 0..1 The existing physiological conditions of the specific population to which this applies
]

Changes since Release 3

Population

No Changes

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