FHIR Chat · Translation Packs for Questionnaire

Stream: questionnaire

Topic: Translation Packs for Questionnaire

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 08:57):

This is for @Vladimir Smirnov who asked me this in person on Wednesday at the FHIRStarter meeting, and I didn't get the answer correct.

His question was about questionnaires getting unreasonably large if you try to have multiple languages in the questionnaire

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 08:58):

so there's a better way to do questionnaire translations. The answer starts with this, from https://www.hl7.org/fhir/codesystem.html#detailed-metadata:

Some other parts of the FHIR infrastructure define set of concepts that may also be treated as code systems
Questionnaire: The Questionnaire.url (canonical URL) is the system. Each .item.linkId in the snapshot is a code in the code system. Items with no linkId cannot be addressed

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 08:59):

this means that you can provide a code system supplement that contains the translations for the questionnaire in a specific language

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 09:00):

conceptually:

CodeSystem
 lang = {your language}
  url = something
  kind = supplement
  supplements = {Questionnaire.url}

  concept (x N)
   code = {Questionnaire.item.linkId}
   display = {String display in specified language}

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 09:01):

in fact, using this technique, it's possible to specify alternate presentations in the same language e.g. clinician display, or mobile display

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 09:02):

SDC might want to note this as an option somewhere

Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 11 2019 at 14:40):

Care to submit a change request? :)

Grahame Grieve (Oct 11 2019 at 16:38):

GF#24934

Vladimir Smirnov (Oct 11 2019 at 22:35):

Thank you so much for taking care of this on such a personal level! :) I believe, the two approaches Grahame mentioned during our conversation could be employed together: the one above, and respecting Content-Language parameter in HTTP query (as per 'Internationalization' section of FHIR documentation). This way, the FHIR server may generate a Questionnaire instance on demand using translations in the code system.

Patrick Werner (Oct 14 2019 at 11:59):

i really like this idea. We ran into the same issue of having really large Questionnaires.

Grahame Grieve (Oct 15 2019 at 08:25):

yes, SDC could extend this to require a form manager to perform translation on the fly

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