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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-40934

Need to improve/clarify explanation of requirement regarding "conformance to profile"

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    • Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive
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    • US Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) (FHIR)
    • 3.0.0-ballot
    • Clinical Interoperability Council
    • Profile Conformance
    • Definition of “Required”
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      Will update description. The passage was attempting to describe the situation where an instance has an optional element that is actually present, then a conforming resource would need to also have the child element. We rephrased it as follows:

      "In terms of instances, if profile P has an optional element A whose child element B has minimum cardinality > 0, then any instance where element A is present will only conform to P if element B is present."

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      Will update description. The passage was attempting to describe the situation where an instance has an optional element that is actually present, then a conforming resource would need to also have the child element. We rephrased it as follows: "In terms of instances, if profile P has an optional element A whose child element B has minimum cardinality > 0, then any instance where element A is present will only conform to P if element B is present."
    • Saul Kravitz / Jimmy Tcheng : 7 - 0 - 0
    • Clarification
    • Non-substantive

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      The third bullet point states: "The element is not a top-level element, its minimum cardinality is > 0, and its immediate higher-level containing element exists in an instance attempting to conform to the profile."  
      This seems unclear in what is specifically meant by "...attempting to conform to the profile" and, assuming this means the instance has asserted conformance to a profile, it is possibly a bit redundant since the existence of a containing element dictates that any contained mandatory elements shall exist.

      Clarification is needed.

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          Ballot Vote - The designation of a comment about a specification as related to an overall Ballot Submission BALLOT-49161 Affirmative - Liora Alschuler : 2023-May-FHIR IG MCODE R1 STU

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          Ballot Vote - The designation of a comment about a specification as related to an overall Ballot Submission BALLOT-49197 Affirmative - Corey Spears : 2023-May-FHIR IG MCODE R1 STU

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          Ballot Vote - The designation of a comment about a specification as related to an overall Ballot Submission BALLOT-49216 Affirmative - Rick Geimer : 2023-May-FHIR IG MCODE R1 STU

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          Ballot Vote - The designation of a comment about a specification as related to an overall Ballot Submission BALLOT-49328 Affirmative - Ming Dunajick : 2023-May-FHIR IG MCODE R1 STU

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