Stream: IPS
Topic: practitionerrole valueset
Carl Leitner (May 06 2021 at 18:59):
The valueset for practitioner role
http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/ips/ValueSet-healthcare-professional-roles-uv-ips.html
does not seem to be the complete WHO identified value set of ISCO code. This can be found here:
https://www.who.int/hrh/statistics/Health_workers_classification.pdf
and I noticed 2230 and 2240 are missing, for example.
Not sure where the value set was derived from, but would be good to have all of the codes.
Giorgio Cangioli (May 06 2021 at 20:03):
Thanks @Carl Leitner if there are missing concepts they need to be added :-). Could you add a jira tracker or should I do it ?
Carl Leitner (May 06 2021 at 22:51):
happy to, just wasn't sure if there was intentionality or not.
Carl Leitner (May 06 2021 at 22:56):
https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-32156
Rob Hausam (May 06 2021 at 23:03):
As Giorgio indicated, it's probably not intentional. It's not that large a set of codes, so it probably doesn't matter that much, but is there any source for the codes other than a pdf? And how often might they be updated?
Carl Leitner (May 07 2021 at 01:43):
They haven't been updated since that first publication which was in 2010 I believe. The WHO can only publish PDF and Excel documents. As far as I understand that's an official WHO document
Carl Leitner (May 07 2021 at 01:45):
They are a subset of the ISCO codes. Those are released on a 20-year cycle, there is ISCO-88, ISCO-08 and the WHO set is a subset of ISCO-08. I guess that means we won't even presume to see anything new until at least another 7 years. That's my recollection anyways it's about been 8 to 10 years since I really looked at this in detail
Rob Hausam (May 07 2021 at 12:34):
Thanks, @Carl Leitner. An Excel version normally is preferable to PDF (but, again, in this case it probably doesn't really matter).
Carl Leitner (May 07 2021 at 12:48):
WHO will start hosting valuesets on an SVCM compliant FHIR server soon-ish. I would expect that this valueset will end up there. Presumably that would be even better than excel ;-)
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
