Stream: questionnaire
Topic: Title in an identifier?
Paul Lynch (Jun 06 2019 at 19:16):
The questionnaire at https://launch.smarthealthit.org/v/r3/fhir/Questionnaire/SMART-PROMs-QUE5 puts its title inside the identifier, like this:
"identifier": [
{
"use": "official",
"system": "https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/outcome-measures/oxford-hip-score-ohs/",
"value": "The Oxford Knee Score (OKS)"
}
Two questions:
1) Is that a valid use of an identifier?
2) I am wondering whether my client should support that, in the absence of a name, title, or a code's display value.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 06 2019 at 22:12):
1. Not really. Identifiers are for computable identity, not human labels. "title" is the appropriate place for this.
2. I wouldn't bother. You'd have no way of knowing which identifier (if any) was intended to be treated as a title. The 'official' identifier could easily be a guid or OID or something your users would really not appreciate in H1 style across the top of the page... :)
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