# DEQM Population Description - Data Exchange For Quality Measures Implementation Guide v1.0.0-ballot

## Extension: DEQM Population Description 

DEPRECATED in favor of the measurereport-populationDescription extension: The human readable description of this population criteria.

**Context of Use**

### Mandatory Data Elements and Terminology

The following data-elements are mandatory (i.e data MUST be present).

**Each Must Have:**

1. url: identifies the meaning of the extension

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* This Extension is not used by any profiles in this Implementation Guide

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/hl7.fhir.uv.deqm|current/StructureDefinition/deqm-populationDescription)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description Differentials, Snapshots, and other representations](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](../StructureDefinition-deqm-populationDescription.csv), [Excel](../StructureDefinition-deqm-populationDescription.xlsx), [Schematron](../StructureDefinition-deqm-populationDescription.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "deqm-populationDescription",
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
    "valueCode" : "deprecated"
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
    "valueCode" : "cqi"
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
    "valueInteger" : 4,
    "_valueInteger" : {
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-conformance-derivedFrom",
        "valueCanonical" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/deqm/ImplementationGuide/hl7.fhir.uv.deqm"
      }]
    }
  }],
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/deqm/StructureDefinition/deqm-populationDescription",
  "version" : "1.0.0-ballot",
  "name" : "DEQMPopulationDescription",
  "title" : "DEQM Population Description",
  "status" : "retired",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2024-01-24",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International / Clinical Quality Information",
  "contact" : [{
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/cqi"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "DEPRECATED in favor of the measurereport-populationDescription extension: The human readable description of this population criteria.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "001",
      "display" : "World"
    }]
  }],
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "MeasureReport.group"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "MeasureReport.group.population"
  },
  {
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "MeasureReport.group.stratifier"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "short" : "Population Description",
      "definition" : "Provides a description of the population on which it appears.",
      "min" : 0,
      "max" : "1"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/deqm/StructureDefinition/deqm-populationDescription"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "markdown"
      }]
    }]
  }
}

```
