Quality Measure STU2 for FHIR R4 Implementation Guide
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{
"resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
"id" : "cqfm-aggregateMethod",
"text" : {
"status" : "extensions",
"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana; vertical-align: top;\"><tr style=\"border: 1px #F0F0F0 solid; font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana; vertical-align: top\"><th style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"The logical name of the element\">Name</a></th><th style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Information about the use of the element\">Flags</a></th><th style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Minimum and Maximum # of times the the element can appear in the instance\">Card.</a></th><th style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Reference to the type of the element\">Type</a></th><th style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Additional information about the element\">Description & Constraints</a><span style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Legend for this format\"><img src=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/help16.png\" alt=\"doco\" style=\"background-color: inherit\"/></a></span></th></tr><tr style=\"border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: white\"><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: url(tbl_bck1.png)\" class=\"hierarchy\"><img src=\"tbl_spacer.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: inherit\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><img src=\"icon_element.gif\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: white; background-color: inherit\" title=\"Element\" class=\"hierarchy\"/> <span title=\"Specifies which method to be used to aggregate the measure observation values.\">Extension</span><a name=\"Extension\"> </a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\">0..1</td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extensibility.html#Extension\">Extension</a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\">Aggregate with</td></tr>\r\n<tr style=\"border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: #F7F7F7\"><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: url(tbl_bck10.png)\" class=\"hierarchy\"><img src=\"tbl_spacer.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: inherit\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><img src=\"tbl_vjoin.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: inherit\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><img src=\"icon_primitive.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: #F7F7F7; background-color: inherit\" title=\"Primitive Data Type\" class=\"hierarchy\"/> url<a name=\"Extension.url\"> </a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">1</span><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">..</span><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">1</span></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/datatypes.html#uri\">uri</a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><span style=\"color: darkgreen\">"http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/StructureDefinition/cqfm-aggregateMethod"</span></td></tr>\r\n<tr style=\"border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: white\"><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: url(tbl_bck00.png)\" class=\"hierarchy\"><img src=\"tbl_spacer.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: inherit\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><img src=\"tbl_vjoin_end.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: inherit\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><img src=\"icon_primitive.png\" alt=\".\" style=\"background-color: white; background-color: inherit\" title=\"Primitive Data Type\" class=\"hierarchy\"/> value[x]<a name=\"Extension.value_x_\"> </a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"/><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">0</span><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">..</span><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">1</span></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/datatypes.html#code\">code</a></td><td style=\"vertical-align: top; text-align : left; background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px\" class=\"hierarchy\"><span style=\"opacity: 0.5\">Value of extension</span><br/><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Binding: </span><a href=\"ValueSet-aggregate-method.html\">MeasureAggregateMethod</a> (<a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/terminologies.html#required\" title=\"To be conformant, the concept in this element SHALL be from the specified value set.\">required</a>)</td></tr>\r\n<tr><td colspan=\"5\" class=\"hierarchy\"><br/><a href=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/formats.html#table\" title=\"Legend for this format\"><img src=\"http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/help16.png\" alt=\"doco\" style=\"background-color: inherit\"/> Documentation for this format</a></td></tr></table></div>"
},
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/StructureDefinition/cqfm-aggregateMethod",
"version" : "2.0.0",
"name" : "AggregateMethod",
"title" : "Aggregate Method",
"status" : "active",
"experimental" : false,
"date" : "2019-02-13",
"publisher" : "Health Level Seven, Inc. - CQI WG",
"contact" : [
{
"telecom" : [
{
"system" : "url",
"value" : "http://hl7.org/special/committees/CQI"
}
]
}
],
"description" : "Specifies which method to be used to aggregate the measure observation values.",
"jurisdiction" : [
{
"coding" : [
{
"system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
"code" : "US",
"display" : "United States of America"
}
]
}
],
"purpose" : "For continuous variable measures, the measure observation definition needs to be able to specify how the observations should be aggregated.",
"fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
"mapping" : [
{
"identity" : "rim",
"uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
"name" : "RIM Mapping"
}
],
"kind" : "complex-type",
"abstract" : false,
"context" : [
{
"type" : "element",
"expression" : "Measure.group.population"
}
],
"type" : "Extension",
"baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension",
"derivation" : "constraint",
"snapshot" : {
"element" : [
{
"id" : "Extension",
"path" : "Extension",
"short" : "Aggregate with",
"definition" : "Specifies which method to be used to aggregate the measure observation values.",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Extension",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "*"
},
"condition" : [
"ele-1"
],
"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
},
{
"id" : "Extension.id",
"path" : "Extension.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" : "Extension.extension",
"path" : "Extension.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"
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{
"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"
}
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"isSummary" : false,
"mapping" : [
{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "n/a"
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]
},
{
"id" : "Extension.url",
"path" : "Extension.url",
"representation" : [
"xmlAttr"
],
"short" : "identifies the meaning of the extension",
"definition" : "Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.",
"comment" : "The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension.",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Extension.url",
"min" : 1,
"max" : "1"
},
"type" : [
{
"code" : "uri"
}
],
"fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/StructureDefinition/cqfm-aggregateMethod",
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"mapping" : [
{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}
]
},
{
"id" : "Extension.value[x]",
"path" : "Extension.value[x]",
"short" : "Value of extension",
"definition" : "Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see [Extensibility](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extensibility.html) for a list).",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "1",
"base" : {
"path" : "Extension.value[x]",
"min" : 0,
"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())",
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}
],
"isModifier" : false,
"isSummary" : false,
"binding" : {
"strength" : "required",
"description" : "Aggregation method for a measure (e.g. sum, average, median, minimum, maximum, count)",
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/ValueSet/aggregate-method"
},
"mapping" : [
{
"identity" : "rim",
"map" : "N/A"
}
]
}
]
},
"differential" : {
"element" : [
{
"id" : "Extension",
"path" : "Extension",
"short" : "Aggregate with",
"definition" : "Specifies which method to be used to aggregate the measure observation values.",
"min" : 0,
"max" : "1"
},
{
"id" : "Extension.url",
"path" : "Extension.url",
"type" : [
{
"code" : "uri"
}
],
"fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/StructureDefinition/cqfm-aggregateMethod"
},
{
"id" : "Extension.value[x]",
"path" : "Extension.value[x]",
"type" : [
{
"code" : "code"
}
],
"binding" : {
"strength" : "required",
"description" : "Aggregation method for a measure (e.g. sum, average, median, minimum, maximum, count)",
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/cqfmeasures/ValueSet/aggregate-method"
}
}
]
}
}
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