Release 5

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FHIR Infrastructure icon Work GroupMaturity Level: NormativeStandards Status: Normative
Narrative
Standards StatusThis element has a standards status of "Normative"
Definition

A human-readable summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.

Short DisplayHuman-readable summary of the resource (essential clinical and business information)
Cardinality0..*
TypeDataType
Narrative.status
Definition

The status of the narrative - whether it's entirely generated (from just the defined data or the extensions too), or whether a human authored it and it may contain additional data.

Short Displaygenerated | extensions | additional | empty
Cardinality1..1
Terminology BindingNarrativeStatus (Required)
Typecode
Narrative.div
Definition

The actual narrative content, a stripped down version of XHTML.

Short DisplayLimited xhtml content
Cardinality1..1
Typexhtml
Comments

The contents of the html element are an XHTML fragment containing only the basic html formatting elements described in chapters 7-11 and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained stylesheets. The XHTML content SHALL NOT contain a head, a body, external stylesheet references, scripts, forms, base/link/xlink, frames, iframes and objects.

Invariants
Defined on this element
txt-1Rule The narrative SHALL contain only the basic html formatting elements and attributes described in chapters 7-11 (except section 4 of chapter 9) and 15 of the HTML 4.0 standard, <a> elements (either name or href), images and internally contained style attributeshtmlChecks()
txt-2Rule The narrative SHALL have some non-whitespace contenthtmlChecks()