# LimitationSummary Extension - Order Catalog Implementation Guide v1.0.0

* [**Table Content**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **LimitationSummary Extension**

## Extension: LimitationSummary Extension 

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/order-catalog/StructureDefinition/LimitationSummary | *Version*:1.0.0 | |
| * Standards status: *[Trial-use](http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/versions.html#std-process) | [Maturity Level](http://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#maturity): 2 | *Computable Name*:LimitationSummary |
| *Other Identifiers:*OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.55.42.20 | | |

This extension to PlanDefinition conveys the textual summary of the limitations associated with the laboratory service represented by the PlanDefinition instance. These limitations may for instance exclude some patient conditions of medications, incompatible with the diagnostic procedure.

**Context of Use**

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* Use this Extension: [Laboratory Service Definition](StructureDefinition-LabServiceDefinition.md)
* Examples for this Extension: [Bundle/example-lab-test-creation-transaction-request](Bundle-example-lab-test-creation-transaction-request.md), [Bundle/example-lab-test-creation-transaction-response](Bundle-example-lab-test-creation-transaction-response.md), [BloodElectrolytePanel](PlanDefinition-example-lab-panel-blood-electrolyte.md), [PotassiumSerumMeasurement](PlanDefinition-example-lab-service-potassium-serum.md) and [VitaminDMeasurement](PlanDefinition-example-lab-service-vitamind-serum.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/resource/hl7.fhir.uv.order-catalog|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-LimitationSummary.json)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-LimitationSummary.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-LimitationSummary.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-LimitationSummary.sch) 

#### Constraints



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "LimitationSummary",
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
    "valueCode" : "oo"
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-type-characteristics",
    "valueCode" : "can-bind"
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
    "valueInteger" : 2,
    "_valueInteger" : {
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-conformance-derivedFrom",
        "valueCanonical" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/order-catalog/ImplementationGuide/ig-uv-order-catalog"
      }]
    }
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
    "valueCode" : "trial-use",
    "_valueCode" : {
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-conformance-derivedFrom",
        "valueCanonical" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/order-catalog/ImplementationGuide/ig-uv-order-catalog"
      }]
    }
  }],
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/order-catalog/StructureDefinition/LimitationSummary",
  "identifier" : [{
    "system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
    "value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.55.42.20"
  }],
  "version" : "1.0.0",
  "name" : "LimitationSummary",
  "title" : "Limitation summary for the plan definition",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2026-06-04T02:14:04+10:00",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International / Orders and Observations",
  "contact" : [{
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/orders"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "This extension to PlanDefinition conveys the textual summary of the limitations associated with the laboratory service represented by the PlanDefinition instance. These limitations may for instance exclude some patient conditions of medications, incompatible with the diagnostic procedure.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "001"
    }]
  }],
  "fhirVersion" : "5.0.0",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "PlanDefinition"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "max" : "1"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/order-catalog/StructureDefinition/LimitationSummary"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "string"
      }]
    }]
  }
}

```
