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StructureDefinition for Narrative
{
"resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
"id" : "Narrative",
"meta" : {
"lastUpdated" : "2021-12-19T08:15:41.873+11:00"
},
"text" : {
"status" : "generated",
"div" : "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"
},
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
"valueCode" : "normative"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-normative-version",
"valueCode" : "4.0.0"
}],
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative",
"version" : "5.0.0-snapshot1",
"name" : "Narrative",
"status" : "active",
"date" : "2021-12-19T08:15:41+11:00",
"publisher" : "HL7 FHIR Standard",
"contact" : [{
"telecom" : [{
"system" : "url",
"value" : "http://hl7.org/fhir"
}]
}],
"description" : "Base StructureDefinition for Narrative Type: A human-readable summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.",
"fhirVersion" : "5.0.0-snapshot1",
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
"name" : "RIM Mapping"
}],
"kind" : "complex-type",
"abstract" : false,
"type" : "Narrative",
"baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/DataType",
"derivation" : "specialization",
"snapshot" : {
"element" : [{
"id" : "Narrative",
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
"valueCode" : "normative"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-normative-version",
"valueCode" : "4.0.0"
}],
"path" : "Narrative",
"short" : "Human-readable summary of the resource (essential clinical and business information)",
"definition" : "A human-readable summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*",
"base" : {
"path" : "Narrative",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*"
},
"constraint" : [{
"key" : "ele-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children",
"expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())",
"xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"
}],
"isModifier" : false,
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "n/a"
},
{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.id",
"path" : "Narrative.id",
"representation" : ["xmlAttr"],
"short" : "Unique id for inter-element referencing",
"definition" : "Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Element.id",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "1"
},
"type" : [{
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fhir-type",
"valueUrl" : "string"
}],
"code" : "http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String"
}],
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "n/a"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.extension",
"path" : "Narrative.extension",
"slicing" : {
"discriminator" : [{
"type" : "value",
"path" : "url"
}],
"description" : "Extensions are always sliced by (at least) url",
"rules" : "open"
},
"short" : "Additional content defined by implementations",
"definition" : "May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension.",
"comment" : "There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone.",
"alias" : ["extensions",
"user content"],
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*",
"base" : {
"path" : "Element.extension",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*"
},
"type" : [{
"code" : "Extension"
}],
"constraint" : [{
"key" : "ele-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children",
"expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())",
"xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"
},
{
"key" : "ext-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "Must have either extensions or value[x], not both",
"expression" : "extension.exists() != value.exists()",
"xpath" : "exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), \"value\")])",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension"
}],
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "n/a"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.status",
"path" : "Narrative.status",
"short" : "generated | extensions | additional | empty",
"definition" : "The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Narrative.status",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1"
},
"type" : [{
"code" : "code"
}],
"constraint" : [{
"key" : "ele-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children",
"expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())",
"xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"
}],
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"binding" : {
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/build/StructureDefinition/binding-definition",
"valueString" : "The status of a resource narrative."
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-bindingName",
"valueString" : "NarrativeStatus"
}],
"strength" : "required",
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/narrative-status|5.0.0-snapshot1"
},
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.div",
"path" : "Narrative.div",
"short" : "Limited xhtml content",
"definition" : "The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.",
"comment" : "The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content SHALL NOT contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Narrative.div",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1"
},
"type" : [{
"code" : "xhtml"
}],
"constraint" : [{
"key" : "ele-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "All FHIR elements must have a @value or children",
"expression" : "hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())",
"xpath" : "@value|f:*|h:div",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Element"
},
{
"key" : "txt-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributes",
"expression" : "htmlChecks()",
"xpath" : "not(descendant-or-self::*[not(local-name(.)=('a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'b', 'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'caption', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'dfn', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'li', 'ol', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'ul', 'var'))]) and not(descendant-or-self::*/@*[not(name(.)=('abbr', 'accesskey', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'bgcolor', 'border', 'cellhalign', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'cellvalign', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'cite', 'class', 'colspan', 'compact', 'coords', 'dir', 'frame', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'name', 'nowrap', 'rel', 'rev', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'span', 'src', 'start', 'style', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'title', 'type', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width'))])",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative"
},
{
"key" : "txt-2",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "The narrative SHALL have some non-whitespace content",
"expression" : "htmlChecks()",
"xpath" : "descendant::text()[normalize-space(.)!=''] or descendant::h:img[@src]",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative"
}],
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
}]
},
"differential" : {
"element" : [{
"id" : "Narrative",
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
"valueCode" : "normative"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-normative-version",
"valueCode" : "4.0.0"
}],
"path" : "Narrative",
"short" : "Human-readable summary of the resource (essential clinical and business information)",
"definition" : "A human-readable summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*",
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.status",
"path" : "Narrative.status",
"short" : "generated | extensions | additional | empty",
"definition" : "The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1",
"type" : [{
"code" : "code"
}],
"binding" : {
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/build/StructureDefinition/binding-definition",
"valueString" : "The status of a resource narrative."
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/elementdefinition-bindingName",
"valueString" : "NarrativeStatus"
}],
"strength" : "required",
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/narrative-status|5.0.0-snapshot1"
},
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
},
{
"id" : "Narrative.div",
"path" : "Narrative.div",
"short" : "Limited xhtml content",
"definition" : "The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.",
"comment" : "The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content SHALL NOT contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1",
"type" : [{
"code" : "xhtml"
}],
"constraint" : [{
"key" : "txt-1",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributes",
"expression" : "htmlChecks()",
"xpath" : "not(descendant-or-self::*[not(local-name(.)=('a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'b', 'big', 'blockquote', 'br', 'caption', 'cite', 'code', 'col', 'colgroup', 'dd', 'dfn', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6', 'hr', 'i', 'img', 'li', 'ol', 'p', 'pre', 'q', 'samp', 'small', 'span', 'strong', 'sub', 'sup', 'table', 'tbody', 'td', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'tr', 'tt', 'ul', 'var'))]) and not(descendant-or-self::*/@*[not(name(.)=('abbr', 'accesskey', 'align', 'alt', 'axis', 'bgcolor', 'border', 'cellhalign', 'cellpadding', 'cellspacing', 'cellvalign', 'char', 'charoff', 'charset', 'cite', 'class', 'colspan', 'compact', 'coords', 'dir', 'frame', 'headers', 'height', 'href', 'hreflang', 'hspace', 'id', 'lang', 'longdesc', 'name', 'nowrap', 'rel', 'rev', 'rowspan', 'rules', 'scope', 'shape', 'span', 'src', 'start', 'style', 'summary', 'tabindex', 'title', 'type', 'valign', 'value', 'vspace', 'width'))])",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative"
},
{
"key" : "txt-2",
"severity" : "error",
"human" : "The narrative SHALL have some non-whitespace content",
"expression" : "htmlChecks()",
"xpath" : "descendant::text()[normalize-space(.)!=''] or descendant::h:img[@src]",
"source" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Narrative"
}],
"mapping" : [{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}]
}]
}
}
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.