Stream: implementers
Topic: Patient attributes
Wadii TAHRI (May 26 2020 at 10:24):
Hi,
I have a question related to attributes Patient:
"multipleBirthBoolean" : <boolean>,
"multipleBirthInteger" : <integer>,
AND
"deceasedBoolean" : <boolean>,
"deceasedDateTime" : "<dateTime>",
My question is : Can we create an object contain properties deceasedBoolean, deceasedDateTime as in this example below ?
// deceased{
"deceasedBoolean" : <boolean>,
"deceasedDateTime" : "<dateTime>",
}
Jason Walonoski (May 26 2020 at 12:40):
No, you can't have both deceasedBoolean and deceasedDateTime because deceased[x] has a cardinality of 0..1 which means there can only be one deceased[x] element.
Jason Walonoski (May 26 2020 at 12:41):
multipleBirth[x] also is cardinality of 0..1, so you can't do that either.
Jason Walonoski (May 26 2020 at 12:42):
If you had a choice type of 0..* then you could, but I'm not sure if any choice elements exist with plural cardinality in the FHIR specification or not.
Reece Adamson (May 26 2020 at 17:39):
Categorically, an element with a choice of data type cannot repeat:
Elements that have a choice of data type cannot repeat - they must have a maximum cardinality of 1. When constructing an instance of an element with a choice of types, the authoring system must create a single element with a data type chosen from among the list of permitted data types.
From section 2.6.0.1.2 Choice of Data Types in the FHIR spec
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