Stream: implementers
Topic: Defining a Questionnaire Question Bank
Jean Duteau (Apr 14 2020 at 16:03):
I have a set of "QuestionDefinitions" and I'm trying to understand how to use the Questionnaire resource to reference the external definitions. I read http://hl7.org/fhir/questionnaire.html#definition but that didn't really help - it seems like a good example of what the external question definition would look like is needed. I looked at the SDC IG in hopes that it talked about this idea of a question bank, but I didn't see it. Does someone have guidance on how to represent a bank of questions that can be reused in Questionnaire instances?
Eric Haas (Apr 14 2020 at 16:48):
You would create a bunch of tiny Qs essentially representing a single question or group of question. The use the new extension (FHIR#22356) for modularizing Qs to build up a root Q using them.
Jean Duteau (Apr 14 2020 at 16:51):
okay, that is an interesting way of doing it. kind of heavy to have a Q instance for each question? The Q metadata will be somewhat spurious for single questions (or even groups). How does this work with the existing Questionnaire.item.definition element?
Eric Haas (Apr 14 2020 at 17:00):
linking to #questionnaire ...
Eric Haas (Apr 14 2020 at 17:03):
Questionnaire is definitional so QuestionDefinition == Questionnaire. Why is it too heavy? ifn you want to mix and match item for Qs you still need the source meta data for each question?
Eric Haas (Apr 14 2020 at 17:05):
And switching over to this stream
Grahame Grieve (Apr 14 2020 at 21:10):
A bank of single questions, you'd use definition, not a modular questionnaire
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