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Topic: Missing content in generated narrative

view this post on Zulip David McKillop (Jan 19 2018 at 00:17):

In the Observation "Blood Pressure" example (http://build.fhir.org/observation-example-bloodpressure.html )
1) there is XML content for "meta" which is a resolvable uri:

<meta>
    <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/vitalsigns"/>
  </meta>

but the generated narrative for "meta" in blank. Is that an issue?

2) in the "basedOn" field there is logical content ie:

<basedOn>
    <identifier>
      <system value="https://acme.org/identifiers"/>
      <value value="1234"/>
    </identifier>
  </basedOn>

Question: Should non-resolvable uri's be left as blank or should the non-resolvable uri be included in the generated narrative (screen display)?

view this post on Zulip Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 19 2018 at 00:46):

Narrative isn't expected to include all data elements. It's only expected to include what information a human reader would find relevant/important. The content in meta generally doesn't fit that bill (though one might argue for an exception for security tags). Typically references would only include the "display" information for a reference and not display identifiers or URIs, but the behavior might change based on the system producing the narrative and the specific element.

view this post on Zulip David McKillop (Jan 19 2018 at 01:07):

@Lloyd McKenzie - thanks for that.

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