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4.28.8 Resource QuestionnaireAnswers - Detailed Descriptions

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the QuestionnaireAnswers resource.

QuestionnaireAnswers
Definition

A structured set of questions and their answers. The questions are ordered and grouped into coherent subsets, corresponding to the structure of the grouping of the underlying questions.

Control1..1
Requirements

To support structured, hierarchical registration of data gathered using digital forms and other questionnaires.

Alternate NamesForm
QuestionnaireAnswers.identifier
Definition

A business identifier assigned to a particular completed (or partially completed) questionnaire.

NoteThis is a business identifer, not a resource identifier (see discussion)
Control0..1
TypeIdentifier
Requirements

Used for tracking, registration and other business purposes.

Summarytrue
QuestionnaireAnswers.questionnaire
Definition

Indicates the Questionnaire resource that defines the form for which answers are being provided.

Control0..1
TypeReference(Questionnaire)
Requirements

Needed to allow editing of the questionnaire in a manner that enforces the constraints of the original form.

Alternate NamesForm
Summarytrue
QuestionnaireAnswers.status
Definition

The lifecycle status of the questionnaire answers as a whole.

Control1..1
BindingQuestionnaireAnswersStatus: Required: http://hl7.org/fhir/questionnaire-answers-status (Lifecycle status of the questionnaire answers)
Typecode
Is Modifiertrue
Requirements

The information on questionnaires may possibly be gathered during multiple sessions and altered after considered being finished. Questionnaires with just questions may serve as template forms, with the applicable publication statuses.

Summarytrue
QuestionnaireAnswers.subject
Definition

The subject of the questionnaire answers. This could be a patient, organization, practitioner, device, etc. This is who/what the answers apply to, but is not necessarily the source of information.

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TypeReference(Any)
Requirements

Must know the subject context.

Alternate NamesPatient; Focus
Summarytrue
QuestionnaireAnswers.author
Definition

Person who received the answers to the questions in the QuestionnaireAnswers and recorded them in the system.

Control0..1
TypeReference(Practitioner | Patient | RelatedPerson)
Requirements

Need to know who interpreted the subject's answers to the questions in the questionnaire, and selected the appropriate options for answers.

Alternate NamesLaboratory; Service; Practitioner; Department; Company
Summarytrue
Comments

Mapping a subject's answers to multiple choice options and determining what to put in the textual answer is a matter of interpretation.

QuestionnaireAnswers.authored
Definition

The date and/or time that this version of the questionnaire answers was authored.

Control0..1
TypedateTime
Requirements

Clinicians need to be able to check the date that the information in the questionnaire was collected, to derive the context of the answers.

Alternate NamesDate Created; Date published; Date Issued; Date updated
Summarytrue
Comments

May be different from the update time of the resource itself, because that is the status of the collection and authoring. This element is optional to allow for systems that may not know the value, however it SHOULD be populated if possible.

QuestionnaireAnswers.source
Definition

The person who answered the questions about the subject.

Control0..1
TypeReference(Patient | Practitioner | RelatedPerson)
Requirements

When answering questions about a subject that is minor, incapable of answering or an animal, another human source is used to answer the questions.

Summarytrue
Comments

If not specified, no inference can be made about who provided the data.

QuestionnaireAnswers.encounter
Definition

Encounter during which this set of questionnaire answers were collected. When there were multiple encounters, this is the one considered most relevant to the context of the answers.

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TypeReference(Encounter)
Requirements

Some institutions track questionnaires under a specific encounter.

Summarytrue
QuestionnaireAnswers.group
Definition

A group of questions to a possibly similarly grouped set of questions in the questionnaire answers.

Control0..1
Requirements

Need to be able to logically group answers to grouped questions.

Comments

The Questionnaire itself has one "root" group with the actual contents of the Questionnaire.

InvariantsDefined on this element
qan-1: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
QuestionnaireAnswers.group.linkId
Definition

Identifies the group from the Questionnaire that corresponds to this group in the QuestionnaireAnswers resource.

Control0..1
Typestring
Requirements

Groups can repeat in the answers, so a direct 1..1 correspondence may not exist - requiring correspondence by id.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.title
Definition

Text that is displayed above the contents of the group.

Control0..1
Typestring
Requirements

When including text for the questionnaire with the answers, sections may have a section header.

Comments

On the root group, this is the title of the questionnaire.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.text
Definition

Additional text for the group, used for display purposes.

Control0..1
Typestring
Requirements

When including text for the questionnaire, each section may contain additional explanations are background text.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.subject
Definition

More specific subject this section's answers are about, details the subject given in QuestionnaireAnswers.

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TypeReference(Any)
Requirements

Sometimes a group of answers is about a specific participant, artifact or piece of information in the patient's care or record, e.g. a specific Problem, RelatedPerson, Allergy etc.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.group
Definition

A sub-group within a group. The ordering of groups within this group is relevant.

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TypeSee QuestionnaireAnswers.group
Requirements

Reports can consist of complex nested groups.

InvariantsAffect this element
qan-1: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question
Definition

Set of questions within this group. The order of questions within the group is relevant.

Control0..*
Requirements

Must register answers to questions.

Alternate NamesResponses; Contents
InvariantsAffect this element
qan-1: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question.linkId
Definition

Identifies the question from the Questionnaire that corresponds to this question in the QuestionnaireAnswers resource.

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Typestring
Requirements

Groups can repeat in the answers, so a direct 1..1 correspondence may not exist - requiring correspondence by id.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question.text
Definition

The actual question as shown to the user to prompt them for an answer.

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Typestring
Requirements

When including text for the questionnaire, each question may contain its actual question display text.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question.answer
Definition

The respondent's answer(s) to the question.

Control0..*
Comments

We nest the value because we can't have a repeating structure that has variable type.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question.answer.value[x]
Definition

The answer (or one of the answers) provided by the respondant to the question.

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Typeboolean|decimal|integer|date|dateTime|instant|time|string|uri|Attachment|Coding|Quantity|Reference(Any)
Requirements

Need to be able to retain a single-valued answer to a question.

Comments

More complex structures (Attachment, Resource and Quantity) will typically be limited to electronic forms that can expose an appropriate user interface to capture the components and enforce the constraints of a complex data type. Additional complex types can be introduced through extensions.

QuestionnaireAnswers.group.question.group
Definition

Nested group, containing nested question for this question. The order of groups within the question is relevant.

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TypeSee QuestionnaireAnswers.group
Requirements

It is useful to have "sub-questions", questions which normally appear when certain answers are given and which collect additional details.