Stream: implementers
Topic: Goal for a treatment
Malgorzata Schwab (Jul 09 2018 at 23:43):
Hello!
Malgorzata Schwab (Jul 09 2018 at 23:43):
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/codesystem-goal-category.html
Malgorzata Schwab (Jul 09 2018 at 23:46):
The Goal category does not seem to account for "treatment", even though the documentation suggests such a category. Any thoughts how to articulate that a Goal is related to a treatment?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 09 2018 at 23:51):
@Michelle (Moseman) Miller ?
Michelle (Moseman) Miller (Jul 11 2018 at 16:23):
@Malgorzata Schwab
To convey a Goal has a categorization of "treatment", you can use Goal.category since it has an example binding to the value set. This means you aren't constrained to that value set.
To convey a specific treatment pertains to this goal, then you can use the extension, pertainsToGoal, https://www.hl7.org/fhir/extension-goal-pertainstogoal.html
Malgorzata Schwab (Jul 11 2018 at 18:58):
Yes, we could add a new category called "treatment" as an extension, but shouldn't it be added to the original value set?
Michelle (Moseman) Miller (Jul 11 2018 at 21:05):
@Malgorzata Schwab The Goal.category value set binding is example, https://www.hl7.org/fhir/terminologies.html#example, which means you can use any code that conveys "treatment" -- you aren't limited to only the codes in the example value set. Specifically, FHIR defines an example binding as follows:
Instances are not expected or even encouraged to draw from the specified value set. The value set merely provides examples of the types of concepts intended to be included
By contrast, the extension was mentioned in case you wanted to link an instance of a specific treatment to the goal.
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