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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xml:lang="en" lang="en"><hr/><p><b>English</b></p><hr/><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: ValueSet primitive-types</b></p><a name="primitive-types"> </a><a name="hcprimitive-types"> </a><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html"><code>http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types</code></a><table class="none"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-base64Binary">base64Binary</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">base64Binary</td><td>base64Binary Type: A stream of bytes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-boolean">boolean</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">boolean</td><td>boolean Type: Value of "true" or "false"</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-canonical">canonical</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">canonical</td><td>canonical type: A URI that is a reference to a canonical URL on a FHIR resource</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-code">code</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">code</td><td>code type: A string which has at least one character and no leading or trailing whitespace and where there is no whitespace other than single spaces in the contents</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-date">date</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">date</td><td>date Type: A date or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). There is no UTC offset. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth and date. Dates SHALL be valid dates.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-dateTime">dateTime</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">dateTime</td><td>dateTime Type: A date, date-time or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). If hours and minutes are specified, a UTC offset SHALL be populated. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth, date and dateTime. Seconds must be provided due to schema type constraints but may be zero-filled and may be ignored. Dates SHALL be valid dates.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-decimal">decimal</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">decimal</td><td>decimal Type: A rational number with implicit precision</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-id">id</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">id</td><td>id type: Any combination of letters, numerals, "-" and ".", with a length limit of 64 characters. (This might be an integer, an unprefixed OID, UUID or any other identifier pattern that meets these constraints.) Ids are case-insensitive.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-instant">instant</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">instant</td><td>instant Type: An instant in time - known at least to the second</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-integer">integer</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">integer</td><td>integer Type: A whole number</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-integer64">integer64</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">integer64</td><td>integer64 Type: A very large whole number</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-markdown">markdown</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">markdown</td><td>markdown type: A string that may contain Github Flavored Markdown syntax for optional processing by a mark down presentation engine</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-oid">oid</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">oid</td><td>oid type: An OID represented as a URI</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-string">string</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">string</td><td>string Type: A sequence of Unicode characters</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-positiveInt">positiveInt</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">positiveInt</td><td>positiveInt type: An integer with a value that is positive (e.g. >0)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-time">time</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">time</td><td>time Type: A time during the day, with no date specified</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-unsignedInt">unsignedInt</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">unsignedInt</td><td>unsignedInt type: An integer with a value that is not negative (e.g. >= 0)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-uri">uri</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">uri</td><td>uri Type: String of characters used to identify a name or a resource</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-url">url</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">url</td><td>url type: A URI that is a literal reference</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-uuid">uuid</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">uuid</td><td>uuid type: A UUID, represented as a URI</td></tr></table></li></ul></div><div xml:lang="es" lang="es"><hr/><p><b>Spanish</b></p><hr/><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: ValueSet primitive-types</b></p><a name="es-primitive-types"> </a><a name="es-hcprimitive-types"> </a><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html"><code>http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types</code></a><table class="none"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-base64Binary">base64Binary</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">base64Binary</td><td>base64Binary Type: A stream of bytes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-boolean">boolean</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">boolean</td><td>boolean Type: Value of "true" or "false"</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-canonical">canonical</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">canonical</td><td>canonical type: A URI that is a reference to a canonical URL on a FHIR resource</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-code">code</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">code</td><td>code type: A string which has at least one character and no leading or trailing whitespace and where there is no whitespace other than single spaces in the contents</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-date">date</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">date</td><td>date Type: A date or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). There is no UTC offset. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth and date. Dates SHALL be valid dates.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-dateTime">dateTime</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">dateTime</td><td>dateTime Type: A date, date-time or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). If hours and minutes are specified, a UTC offset SHALL be populated. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth, date and dateTime. Seconds must be provided due to schema type constraints but may be zero-filled and may be ignored. Dates SHALL be valid dates.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-decimal">decimal</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">decimal</td><td>decimal Type: A rational number with implicit precision</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-id">id</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">id</td><td>id type: Any combination of letters, numerals, "-" and ".", with a length limit of 64 characters. (This might be an integer, an unprefixed OID, UUID or any other identifier pattern that meets these constraints.) Ids are case-insensitive.</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-instant">instant</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">instant</td><td>instant Type: An instant in time - known at least to the second</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-integer">integer</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">integer</td><td>integer Type: A whole number</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-integer64">integer64</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">integer64</td><td>integer64 Type: A very large whole number</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-markdown">markdown</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">markdown</td><td>markdown type: A string that may contain Github Flavored Markdown syntax for optional processing by a mark down presentation engine</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-oid">oid</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">oid</td><td>oid type: An OID represented as a URI</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-string">string</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">string</td><td>string Type: A sequence of Unicode characters</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-positiveInt">positiveInt</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">positiveInt</td><td>positiveInt type: An integer with a value that is positive (e.g. >0)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-time">time</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">time</td><td>time Type: A time during the day, with no date specified</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-unsignedInt">unsignedInt</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">unsignedInt</td><td>unsignedInt type: An integer with a value that is not negative (e.g. >= 0)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-uri">uri</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">uri</td><td>uri Type: String of characters used to identify a name or a resource</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-url">url</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">url</td><td>url type: A URI that is a literal reference</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/codesystem-fhir-types.html#fhir-types-uuid">uuid</a></td><td style="color: #cccccc">uuid</td><td>uuid type: A UUID, represented as a URI</td></tr></table></li></ul></div></div>
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