Stream: implementers
Topic: Element alias names with context
Katarina (Aug 19 2019 at 14:39):
Hello, I want to add different alias names for an element in a profile. The difficulty is that the alias depend on a context. What I need is something like this (pseudocode):
<element id="Practitioner.name.family">
<path value="Practitioner.name.family"/>
aliasList:
[
{<context value="context1"/>, <alias value="Nachname"/> },
{<context value="context2"/>, <alias value="Familienname"/>}
]
</element>
How can I define this? Maybe with this extension https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-structuredefinition-display-hint.html? Or is there a better way?
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 20 2019 at 17:00):
I would use the existing ElementDefinition.alias element to convey the value. You could then nest an extension that would define the context for a given alias. Systems that didn't understand the context extension could ignore it and just recognize the terms as being aliases. Systems that recognized the extension could understand when each extension applied.
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