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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-28414

Explain Questionnaire design assumption

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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • R4
    • FHIR Infrastructure
    • Questionnaire
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      Add a section on Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse (in the core spec) that explains when it's appropriate to profile Questionnaire vs. creating an instance and when to profile QuestionnaireResponse as opposed to defining a Questionnaire.  Specifically, profiles on Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse are appropriate to define general capabilities or restrictions on a 'set' of Questionnaires (e.g. This system doesn't support answers of type 'Reference').  Useful for defining the capabilities of a particular application or ecosystem.

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      Add a section on Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse (in the core spec) that explains when it's appropriate to profile Questionnaire vs. creating an instance and when to profile QuestionnaireResponse as opposed to defining a Questionnaire.  Specifically, profiles on Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse are appropriate to define general capabilities or restrictions on a 'set' of Questionnaires (e.g. This system doesn't support answers of type 'Reference').  Useful for defining the capabilities of a particular application or ecosystem.
    • Brian Postlethwaite/Stoyan Halkaliev: 10-0-0
    • Clarification
    • Non-substantive
    • R5

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      A few years ago, I tried to write a profile on Questionnaire to represent an existing instrument, and eventually discovered I was doing it wrong. The representation of the instrument should be an instance of Questionnaire, not a profile: that's why we have a separate QuestionnaireResponse resource. I have recently seen a draft IG that makes the same assumption I was making. The Questionnaire resource page should explain this design approach.
      https://covid-19-ig.logicahealth.org/StructureDefinition-covid-19-exposure-questionnaire.html

      Jira comment: the "related page(s)" field seems to be restricted and does not support the page I'm commenting on. Though it also seems redundant with "related url."

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            jlyle Jay Lyle
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