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| Clinical Decision Support Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative |
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Definition for Code System EvidenceCertaintyType
{
"resourceType" : "CodeSystem",
"id" : "certainty-type",
"meta" : {
"lastUpdated" : "2021-12-19T08:15:41.873+11:00",
"profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablecodesystem"]
},
"text" : {
"status" : "generated",
"div" : "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"
},
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
"valueCode" : "cds"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
"valueCode" : "trial-use"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
"valueInteger" : 1
}],
"url" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/certainty-type",
"identifier" : [{
"system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
"value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.0"
}],
"version" : "5.0.0-snapshot1",
"name" : "EvidenceCertaintyType",
"title" : "EvidenceCertaintyType",
"status" : "draft",
"experimental" : false,
"date" : "2020-12-28T16:55:11+11:00",
"publisher" : "HL7 (FHIR Project)",
"contact" : [{
"telecom" : [{
"system" : "url",
"value" : "http://hl7.org/fhir"
},
{
"system" : "email",
"value" : "fhir@lists.hl7.org"
}]
}],
"description" : "The aspect of quality, confidence, or certainty.",
"caseSensitive" : true,
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/certainty-type",
"content" : "complete",
"concept" : [{
"code" : "Overall",
"display" : "Overall certainty",
"definition" : "Overall certainty of evidence (quality of evidence)."
},
{
"code" : "RiskOfBias",
"display" : "Risk of bias",
"definition" : "methodologic concerns reducing internal validity."
},
{
"code" : "Inconsistency",
"display" : "Inconsistency",
"definition" : "concerns that findings are not similar enough to support certainty."
},
{
"code" : "Indirectness",
"display" : "Indirectness",
"definition" : "concerns reducing external validity."
},
{
"code" : "Imprecision",
"display" : "Imprecision",
"definition" : "fuzzy or wide variability."
},
{
"code" : "PublicationBias",
"display" : "Publication bias",
"definition" : "likelihood that what is published misrepresents what is available to publish."
},
{
"code" : "DoseResponseGradient",
"display" : "Dose response gradient",
"definition" : "higher certainty due to dose response relationship."
},
{
"code" : "PlausibleConfounding",
"display" : "Plausible confounding",
"definition" : "higher certainty due to risk of bias in opposite direction."
},
{
"code" : "LargeEffect",
"display" : "Large effect",
"definition" : "higher certainty due to large effect size."
}]
}
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.