Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Persuasive
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High
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FHIR Core (FHIR)
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R5
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Terminology Infrastructure
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STU
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ValueSet
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4.9.12
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Reuben Daniels/Rob Hausam: 4-0-0
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Clarification
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Non-substantive
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R5
Description
The existing text:
Implicit value sets are those whose specification can be predicted based on the grammar of the underlying code system, and the known structure of the URL that identifies them. The implicit value set capability allows a single URL to serve as a value set definition, and can serve as the basis for the $expand operation and for other value set references. If any value set resources exist with an identifier that conforms to the specified implicit value set URL patterns, the content of the resource must conform to the template provided. Profiles and other value set references can reference these value sets directly (by reference as a URI, rather than by a literal value set reference).
Some (but not all) code systems have implicit value set URL patterns that have been defined and documented for use with FHIR terminology services. Particular FHIR terminology servers might or might not support any or all of these URL patterns.
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This material is not clear about:
1. What the "known structure of the URL that identifies them" means. Does it mean the known structure of the canonical url for an implicit value set?
2. Is there a CLD for an implicit ValueSet? Is there a resource instance?
3. Suggest creating an example of an implicit value set.
4. The text should address how one knows the template for a value set url pattern and how one would know the specified implicit value set URL pattern. If those are defined by the underlying code system, that information should be included in the text.
5. Clarify whether an all codes value set an implicit value set. The Using CPT with HL7 Standards section on implicit value sets lists the all codes value set. That is very different than the information for UCUM for example, and muddies the picture.
After reading this section, and following all the links (RxNorm does not define any implicit value sets), I still don't know what an implicit value set is.
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Issue Links
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BALLOT-42123 Negative - Carmela A. Couderc : 2022-Sep-FHIR R5 STU
- Closed
- relates to
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FHIR-39080 Terminology servers should declare their support for implicit value sets according to VA implementers
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- Triaged
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FHIR-39155 Implicit Value Sets subsection should be reviewed and updated.
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- Resolved - No Change
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