Extension: code for string

DSTU2

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Extension code for string - Detailed Descriptions

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.

Extension
Definition	Provides a coded expression for the content represented in a string.
Control	0..*
Type	Extension
Extension.id
Definition	unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references).
Control	0..1
Type	id
Extension.extension(extension)
Definition	An Extension
Control	0..0
Type	Extension
Extension.url
Definition	Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.
Control	1..1
Type	uri
Comments	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 should be version specific. This will ideally be the URI for the Resource Profile defining the extension, with the code for the extension after a #.
Fixed Value	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/iso21090-SC-coding
Extension.valueCoding
Definition	Value of extension - may be a resource or one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility in the spec for list).
Control	1..1
Binding	A coded representation for a string. Could be codes for country in a country address part, codes for prefixes in a name part, etc.
Type	Coding