Stream: implementers
Topic: HealthcareService > Eligibility Criteria 0..1
Tim Berezny (Jun 07 2018 at 18:29):
Currently the "eligibility" and "eligibilityNote" are 0..1.
One key process when doing eReferral to HealthcareService(s) is matching the user to the eligibility. It is very common for a service to have many eligibility criteria (e.g., senior, physical disability, low income).
I want a mechanism by which to search saying "look for all services with eligibility physical disability and low income" for example. This is not possible in a 0..1 for eligibility criteria.
What is the rationale for it being 0..1? I've posted a comment in forge suggesting it become 0..*.
If it does not get adjusted to 0.. *, when building a profile is it acceptable or frowned upon to adjust cardinality from 0..1 to 0.. *?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 07 2018 at 18:38):
Expanding cardinality (loosening minimum or increasing maximum) isn't just frowned upon. It's fundamentally non-conformant and will break most tools and implementations.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 07 2018 at 18:38):
The correct solution is to send an extension for extra repetitions
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 07 2018 at 18:38):
(And to submit a change request if you think the current cardinality doesn't reflect the behavior of most systems.)
Tim Berezny (Jun 07 2018 at 18:48):
Alright, I've submitted a change request, and may look into an extension.
Tim Berezny (Jun 11 2018 at 19:51):
I submitted my note here: https://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=15656
I submitted on this same item earlier in February. I'm curious about what the best process is to submitting on here, should i first have a discussion on chat.fhir.org before submitting to forge, or just post straight to forge. I notice that there aren't any comments in the forge item, so would it be good to kick at it a bit first in here?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 11 2018 at 20:45):
It's never wrong to get conversation going here (and reference the thread in the gForge item)
Tim Berezny (Jun 12 2018 at 01:15):
In the profile i'm currently writing up (https://simplifier.net/guide/eReferraldraftiGuide/HealthcareService) , i'm saying to use "eligibility note" instead of "eligibility", largely because of the ability to fill the single string with multiple eligibility entries. I think i would prefer to use "eligibility" because it's a codeableConcept, and i could tie it to asking eligibility questions when people refer to the healthcareService.
However, only being able to have one eligibility (codeableConcept) makes that idea impossible. So i'm just using eligibility note as a large text field instead.
Thoughts? @Brian Postlethwaite
Brian Postlethwaite (Jun 25 2018 at 07:35):
Supporting your suggestion to change to 0..*
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
