FHIR Cross-Version Extensions package for FHIR R4 from FHIR R5 - Version 0.0.1-snapshot-2. See the Directory of published versions
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"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">\n <p>This code system \n <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/variable-handling</code> defines the following codes:\n </p>\n <table class=\"codes\">\n <tr>\n <td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">\n <b>Code</b>\n </td>\n <td>\n <b>Display</b>\n </td>\n <td>\n <b>Definition</b>\n </td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">continuous\n <a name=\"variable-handling-continuous\"> </a>\n </td>\n <td>continuous variable</td>\n <td>A continuous variable is one for which, within the limits the variable ranges, any value is possible (from STATO http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000251).</td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">dichotomous\n <a name=\"variable-handling-dichotomous\"> </a>\n </td>\n <td>dichotomous variable</td>\n <td>A dichotomous variable is a categorical variable which is defined to have only 2 categories or possible values (from STATO http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000090).</td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">ordinal\n <a name=\"variable-handling-ordinal\"> </a>\n </td>\n <td>ordinal variable</td>\n <td>An ordinal variable is a categorical variable where the discrete possible values are ordered or correspond to an implicit ranking (from STATO http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000228).</td>\n </tr>\n <tr>\n <td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">polychotomous\n <a name=\"variable-handling-polychotomous\"> </a>\n </td>\n <td>polychotomous variable</td>\n <td>A polychotomous variable is a categorical variable which is defined to have minimally 2 categories or possible values. (from STATO http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000087). Suggestion to limit code use to situations when neither dichotomous nor ordinal variables apply.</td>\n </tr>\n </table>\n </div>"
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