FHIR Extensions Pack
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This page is part of the FHIR Core Extensions Registry (v5.3.0-ballot: Release 5.3) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) v5.0.0. This version is a pre-release. The current official version is 5.2.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Extension: CQF Knowledge capability

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/cqf-knowledgeCapability Version: 5.3.0-ballot
Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 2 Responsible: HL7 International / Clinical Decision Support Computable Name: CQFKnowledgeCapability
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.5.1736

Defines a knowledge capability afforded by this knowledge artifact: Shareable, Publishable, Computable, and Executable, a scheme for organizing categories of functionality based on the content management lifecycle. See the Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure implementation guide for more information on these capability categories.

This extension supports specifying knowledge capabilities on resources that do not have a knowledgeCapability element.

Context of Use

This extension may be used on the following element(s)

Usage info

Usages:

You can also check for usages in the FHIR IG Statistics

Changes since version 5.2.0:

  • No changes

    • Formal Views of Extension Content

    Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work.

    This structure is derived from Extension

    Summary

    Simple Extension with the type code: Defines a knowledge capability afforded by this knowledge artifact: Shareable, Publishable, Computable, and Executable, a scheme for organizing categories of functionality based on the content management lifecycle. See the Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure implementation guide for more information on these capability categories.

    Maturity: 2

    This structure is derived from Extension

    NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
    .. Extension 0..* Extension shareable | computable | publishable | executable
    ... extension 0..0
    ... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/cqf-knowledgeCapability"
    ... value[x] 1..1 code Value of extension
    Binding: KnowledgeCapability (required)

    doco Documentation for this format
    NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
    .. Extension 0..* Extension shareable | computable | publishable | executable
    ... id 0..1 id Unique id for inter-element referencing
    ... extension 0..0
    ... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/cqf-knowledgeCapability"

    doco Documentation for this format

    This structure is derived from Extension

    Summary

    Simple Extension with the type code: Defines a knowledge capability afforded by this knowledge artifact: Shareable, Publishable, Computable, and Executable, a scheme for organizing categories of functionality based on the content management lifecycle. See the Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure implementation guide for more information on these capability categories.

    Maturity: 2

    Differential View

    This structure is derived from Extension

    NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
    .. Extension 0..* Extension shareable | computable | publishable | executable
    ... extension 0..0
    ... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/cqf-knowledgeCapability"
    ... value[x] 1..1 code Value of extension
    Binding: KnowledgeCapability (required)

    doco Documentation for this format

    Snapshot View

    NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
    .. Extension 0..* Extension shareable | computable | publishable | executable
    ... id 0..1 id Unique id for inter-element referencing
    ... extension 0..0
    ... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/cqf-knowledgeCapability"

    doco Documentation for this format

     

    Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel, Schematron

    Terminology Bindings

    PathConformanceValueSetURI
    Extension.value[x]requiredKnowledgeCapability(a valid code from Knowledge Capability Code System)
    http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/knowledge-capability
    From this IG

    Constraints

    IdGradePath(s)DetailsRequirements
    ele-1error**ALL** elementsAll FHIR elements must have a @value or children
    : hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())
    ext-1error**ALL** extensionsMust have either extensions or value[x], not both
    : extension.exists() != value.exists()

    R4B

    The extension is unchanged in R4B

    R4

    The extension is unchanged in R4

    R3

    The extension is unchanged in R3

    Search Parameters for this Extension

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