Release 5 Preview #1

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Extension: Narrative Link

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level: 1

Informative

Use Context: Any

URL for this extension:

http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink

Status: draft. Extension maintained by: Health Level Seven International (FHIR Infrastructure)

A human language representation of the concept (resource/element), as a url that is a reference to a portion of the narrative of a resource (DomainResource.text).

Comment:

It's also possible to link to the resource narrative using the originalText extension which claims that the data is derived from the text provided or linked to.

Context of Use: Use on Element ID Element

Summary

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Narrative Link		0..1	url	URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink Narrative Link: A human language representation of the concept (resource/element), as a url that is a reference to a portion of the narrative of a resource (DomainResource.text). Use on Element ID Element
Documentation for this format

Full Structure

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
extension		0..1	Extension	URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink Narrative Link: A human language representation of the concept (resource/element), as a url that is a reference to a portion of the narrative of a resource (DomainResource.text). Use on Element ID Element
extension	I	0..0
url		1..1	uri	"http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink"
value[x]	I	1..1	url	Value of extension
Documentation for this format

XML Template

<!-- Narrative Link -->

<extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"
     url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink" >
  <!-- from Element: extension -->
 <valueUrl value="[url]"/><!--  1..1 Value of extension -->
</extension>

JSON Template

{ // Narrative Link
  // from Element: extension
    "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url  in the specified order, Open ]
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink", // R! 
    "valueUrl" : "<url>" // C? R! Value of extension
  }

Summary

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Narrative Link		0..1	url	URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink Narrative Link: A human language representation of the concept (resource/element), as a url that is a reference to a portion of the narrative of a resource (DomainResource.text). Use on Element ID Element
Documentation for this format

Full Structure

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
extension		0..1	Extension	URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink Narrative Link: A human language representation of the concept (resource/element), as a url that is a reference to a portion of the narrative of a resource (DomainResource.text). Use on Element ID Element
extension	I	0..0
url		1..1	uri	"http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink"
value[x]	I	1..1	url	Value of extension
Documentation for this format

XML Template

<!-- Narrative Link -->

<extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"
     url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink" >
  <!-- from Element: extension -->
 <valueUrl value="[url]"/><!--  1..1 Value of extension -->
</extension>

JSON Template

{ // Narrative Link
  // from Element: extension
    "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url  in the specified order, Open ]
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/narrativeLink", // R! 
    "valueUrl" : "<url>" // C? R! Value of extension
  }

Constraints

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')]))
ele-1: On Extension.extension: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath on Extension.extension: @value|f:*|h:div)
ext-1: On Extension.extension: Must have either extensions or value[x], not both (xpath on Extension.extension: exists(f:extension)!=exists(f:*[starts-with(local-name(.), "value")]))
ele-1: On Extension.value[x]: All FHIR elements must have a @value or children (xpath on Extension.value[x]: @value|f:*|h:div)