Stream: IG creation
Topic: When do I need to slice?
Brian Reinhold (Nov 22 2018 at 12:43):
A Coding element is 0... If my profile requires a certain entry in this element AND I want to allow users of the profile to include additional entries (the same concept expressed in a different coding system) do I need to slice? OR can I just specify my entry and let the base standard 0.. automatically state to end users that further translations are okay? If I wanted to restrict that for some reason I would put a <max value="1"/> in the coding element.
I am slicing now to allow this and may be doing a lot of work for nothing.
Lloyd McKenzie (Nov 22 2018 at 15:05):
Just declare a pattern for the CodeableConcept. No need to slice the codings. And it's bad practice to limit the number of codings to one as that limits interoperability
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