Questionnaire - FHIR v0.0.82

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4.7.8 Resource Questionnaire - Formal Definitions

Formal definitions for the elements in the Questionnaire resource.

Questionnaire
Definition	A structured set of questions and their answers. The Questionnaire may contain questions, answers or both. The questions are ordered and grouped into coherent subsets, corresponding to the structure of the grouping of the underlying questions.
Control	1..1
Requirements	To support structured, hierarchical registration of data gathered using digital forms and other questionnaires.
Aliases	Form
Questionnaire.status
Definition	The lifecycle status of the questionnaire as a whole.
Control	1..1
Binding	QuestionnaireStatus: Lifecycle status of the questionnaire (see http://hl7.org/fhir/questionnaire-status for values)
Type	code
Is Modifier	true
Requirements	The information on questionnaires may possibly gathered during multiple sessions and altered after considered being finished. Questionnaires with just questions may serve as template forms, with the applicable publication statuses.
Summary	true
Questionnaire.authored
Definition	The date and/or time that this version of the questionnaire was authored.
Control	1..1
Type	dateTime
Requirements	Clinicians need to be able to check the date that the information in the questionnaire was collected, to derive the context of the answers.
Aliases	Date Created; Date published; Date Issued; Date updated
Summary	true
Comments	May be different from the update time of the resource itself, because that is the status of the collection and authoring.
Questionnaire.subject
Definition	The subject of the questionnaires: this is the patient that the answers apply to, but this person is not necessarily the source of information.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(Patient \| RelatedPerson)
Requirements	Must know the subject context.
Aliases	Patient
Summary	true
Questionnaire.author
Definition	Person who received the answers to the questions in the Questionnaire and recorded them in the system.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(Practitioner \| Patient \| RelatedPerson)
Requirements	Need to know who interpreted the subject's answers to the questions in the questionnaire, and selected the appropriate options for answers.
Aliases	Laboratory; Service; Practitioner; Department; Company
Summary	true
Comments	Mapping a subject's answers to multiple choice options and determining what to put in the textual answer is a matter of interpretation.
Questionnaire.source
Definition	The person who answered the questions about the subject. Only used when this is not the subject him/herself.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(Patient \| Practitioner \| RelatedPerson)
Requirements	When answering questions about a subject that is minor, incapable of answering or an animal, another human source is used to answer the questions.
Summary	true
To Do	source should be a reference to a Person resource too.
Questionnaire.name
Definition	Structured name for a predefined list of questions this questionnaire is responding to.
Control	0..1
Binding	QuestionnaireName: (See http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/questionnaire-name)
Type	CodeableConcept
Requirements	Need to supply the type of form that was used to collect the answers in this questionnaire.
Summary	true
Questionnaire.identifier
Definition	This records identifiers associated with this question/answer set that are defined by business processed and/ or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the resource itself is not appropriate (e.g. in CDA documents, or in written / printed documentation).
Control	0..*
Type	Identifier
Requirements	Need to allow connection to a wider workflow.
Summary	true
Questionnaire.encounter
Definition	Encounter during which this questionnaire answers were collected. When there were multiple encounters, this is the one considered most relevant to the context of the answers.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(Encounter)
Requirements	Some institutions track questionnaires under a specific encounter.
Summary	true
Questionnaire.group
Definition	A group of questions to a possibly similarly grouped set of questions in the questionnaire.
Control	0..1
Requirements	Need to be able to logically group answers to grouped questions.
Comments	The Questionnaire itself has one "root" group with the actual contents of the Questionnaire.
Invariants	Defined on this element Inv-3: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
Questionnaire.group.name
Definition	Structured name for a section of a predefined list of questions this questionnaire is responding to.
Control	0..1
Binding	QuestionnaireGroupName: (See http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/questionnaire-group-name)
Type	CodeableConcept
Requirements	Structured names identify the group so the answers can be identified, extracted and used.
Questionnaire.group.header
Definition	Text that is displayed above the contents of the group.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Requirements	When including text for the questionnaire with the answers, sections may have a section header.
Questionnaire.group.text
Definition	Additional text for the group, used for display purposes.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Requirements	When including text for the questionnaire, each section may contain additional explanations are background text.
Questionnaire.group.subject
Definition	More specific subject this section's answers are about, details the subject given in Questionnaire.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(Any)
Requirements	Sometimes a group of answers is about a specific participant, artifact or piece of information in the patient's care or record, e.g. a specific Problem, RelatedPerson, Allergy etc.
Questionnaire.group.group
Definition	A sub-group within a group. The ordering of groups within this group is relevant.
Control	0..*
Type	See Questionnaire.group
Requirements	Reports can consist of complex nested groups.
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-3: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
Questionnaire.group.question
Definition	Set of questions within this group. The order of questions within the group is relevant.
Control	0..*
Requirements	Must register answers to questions.
Aliases	Responses; Contents
Invariants	Defined on this element Inv-1: Must supply either a simple answer, a choice, data or nothing (xpath: count(f:data) + count(f:choice) + count(f:answer) <= 1) Inv-2: Must supply a name, a question's text or both (xpath: count(f:name) + count(f:text) >= 1) Affect this element Inv-3: Groups may either contain questions or groups but not both (xpath: not(exists(f:group) and exists(f:question)))
Questionnaire.group.question.name
Definition	Structured name for the question that identifies this question within the Questionnaire or Group.
Control	0..1
Binding	QuestionName: (See http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/questionnaire-question-name)
Type	CodeableConcept
Requirements	Structured name identifies the question so the answers can be extracted and used.
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-2: Must supply a name, a question's text or both (xpath: count(f:name) + count(f:text) >= 1)
Questionnaire.group.question.text
Definition	Text of the question as it is shown to the user.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Requirements	When including text for the questionnaire, each question may contain its actual question display text.
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-2: Must supply a name, a question's text or both (xpath: count(f:name) + count(f:text) >= 1)
Questionnaire.group.question.answer[x]
Definition	Single-valued answer to the question.
Control	0..1
Type	decimal\|integer\|boolean\|date\|string\|dateTime\|instant
Requirements	Need to be able to retain a single-valued answer to a question.
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-1: Must supply either a simple answer, a choice, data or nothing (xpath: count(f:data) + count(f:choice) + count(f:answer) <= 1)
Questionnaire.group.question.choice
Definition	Selections made by the user from the list of options.
Control	0..*
Type	Coding
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-1: Must supply either a simple answer, a choice, data or nothing (xpath: count(f:data) + count(f:choice) + count(f:answer) <= 1)
Questionnaire.group.question.options
Definition	Reference to a valueset containing the possible options.
Control	0..1
Type	Resource(ValueSet)
Questionnaire.group.question.data[x]
Definition	Structured answer in the form of a FHIR Resource or datatype.
Control	0..1
Type	*
Requirements	Depending on the system used to compose a Questionnaire instance, it may be possible for such a system to supply answers in the form of structured FHIR data.
Invariants	Affect this element Inv-1: Must supply either a simple answer, a choice, data or nothing (xpath: count(f:data) + count(f:choice) + count(f:answer) <= 1)
Questionnaire.group.question.remarks
Definition	The remark contains information about the answer given. This is additional information about the answer the author wishes to convey, but should not be used to contain information that is part of the answer itself.
Control	0..1
Type	string
Requirements	Many questionnaires allow you to include "comments" in addition to the answers given.
Questionnaire.group.question.group
Definition	Nested group, containing nested question for this question. The order of groups within the question is relevant.
Control	0..*
Type	See Questionnaire.group
Requirements	It is useful to have "sub-questions", questions which normally appear when certain answers are given and which collect additional details.