Extension: extension - FHIR v3.2.0

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Extension extension - Detailed Descriptions

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level: 1

Informative

Use Context: Any

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.

Extension
Definition	The number that may be dialed within a private phone network or after successfully connecting to a private phone network. This extension is used when a system wishes to designate specific parts of a phone number (and potentially place constraints on which components must be present and how they're filled in).
Control	0..1 This element is affected by the following invariants: ele-1
Comments	The ContactPoint.value element SHOULD still be populated even if the extension is present.
Invariants	Defined on this element ele-1: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath: @value\|f:\|h:div) ext-1: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:[starts-with(local-name(.), 'value')]))
Extension.id
Definition	unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Extension.extension
Definition	An Extension
Control	0..0
Type	Extension
Slicing	This element introduces a set of slices. The slicing rules are: unordered Open discriminators: value:url
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 SHALL be a URI for the Structure Definition defining the extension.
Fixed Value	http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/contactpoint-extension
Extension.valueString
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	0..1
Type	string