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EntityDeterminer in natural language grammar is the class of words that comprises articles, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. In the RIM, determiner is a structural code in the Entity class to distinguish whether any given Entity object stands for some, any one, or a specific thing.
<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <id value="v3-EntityDeterminer"/> <meta> <lastUpdated value="2014-12-11T00:00:00.000+11:00"/> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/Profile/valueset-shareable-definition"/> </meta> <text> <status value="generated"/> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- Snipped for brevity --></div> </text> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-oid"> <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.10878"/> </extension> <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/vs/EntityDeterminer"/> <version value="2014-12-11"/> <name value="v3 Code System EntityDeterminer"/> <publisher value="HL7, Inc"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="url"/> <value value="http://hl7.org"/> </telecom> </contact> <description value=" EntityDeterminer in natural language grammar is the class of words that comprises articles, demonstrative pronouns, and quantifiers. In the RIM, determiner is a structural code in the Entity class to distinguish whether any given Entity object stands for some, any one, or a specific thing."/> <status value="active"/> <experimental value="false"/> <date value="2014-12-11"/> <define> <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/ExtensionDefinition/valueset-oid"> <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.30"/> </extension> <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/EntityDeterminer"/> <caseSensitive value="true"/> <concept> <code value="INSTANCE"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="specific"/> <definition value="Description:A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a particular physical thing (as opposed to a universal, kind, or class of physical thing). Discussion: It does not matter whether an INSTANCE still exists as a whole at the point in time (or process) when we mention it, for example, a drug product lot is an INSTANCE even though it has been portioned out for retail purpose."/> <concept> <code value="GROUP"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="specific group"/> <definition value="A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a particular collection of physical things (as opposed to a universal, kind, or class of physical thing). While the collection may resolve to having only a single individual (or even no individuals), the potential should exist for it to cover multiple individuals."/> </concept> </concept> <concept> <code value="KIND"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="described"/> <definition value="Description:A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a universal, kind or class of physical thing (as opposed to a particular thing)."/> <concept> <code value="GROUPKIND"/> <abstract value="false"/> <display value="described group"/> <definition value="A determiner that specifies that the Entity object represents a universal, kind or class of collections physical things. While the collection may resolve to having only a single individual (or even no individuals), the potential should exist for it to cover multiple individuals."/> </concept> </concept> </define> </ValueSet>
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.