Extension: authoritativeSource

Release 4

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Extension authoritativeSource - Detailed Descriptions

Vocabulary Work Group Maturity Level: 1 Informative Use Context: Any

Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the extension.

Extension

Element Id Extension

Definition

A reference to the authoritative accessible, persisted source of truth of the entire Value Set Definition, including textual information and available versions.

Cardinality 0..1 This element is affected by the following invariants: ele-1

Comments

If this extension is not present, then the canonical URL (ValueSet.url) also serves the purpose of specifying the authoritative source. A difference between the canonical URL and the authoritiative source might arise in some cases due to ongoing organization restructuring, etc., and in those cases this extension may be used. The URL of the authoritative source is intended to be resolvable but that cannot be guaranteed. The designated "authoritative source" is normally expected to be able to generate a valid expansion of the value set, and if for some reason it cannot then the valueset-trusted-expansion should be used.

Invariants

Inherited by this element

ele-1 Rule All FHIR elements must have a @value or children hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())

ext-1 Rule Must have either extensions or value[x], not both extension.exists() != value.exists()

Extension.id

Element Id 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.

Cardinality 0..1

Type string

Extension.extension

Element Id Extension.extension

Definition

An Extension

Cardinality 0..0

Type Extension

Invariants

Inherited by this element

ele-1 Rule All FHIR elements must have a @value or children hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())

ext-1 Rule Must have either extensions or value[x], not both extension.exists() != value.exists()

Slicing This element introduces a set of slices. The slicing rules are:

unordered
Open
discriminators: value:url

Extension.url

Element Id Extension.url

Definition

Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.

Cardinality 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/valueset-authoritativeSource

Extension.value[x]

Element Id Extension.value[x]

Definition

Value of extension - must be one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility for a list).

Cardinality 1..1

Type uri

[x] Note See Choice of Data Types for further information about how to use [x]

Invariants

Inherited by this element

ele-1 Rule All FHIR elements must have a @value or children hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())