Millennium

StructureDefinition

Overview

The StructureDefinition resource describes a FHIR structure including data elements and their usage. Our current implementation uses this resource to define custom extensions.

The following fields are returned if valued:

Retrieve by id

List an individual StructureDefinition by its id:

GET /StructureDefinition/:id

Implementation Notes

Authorization Types

Authorization is not required.

Provider | Patient | System

Headers

Accept: application/json+fhir

Example

Request

GET https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/dstu2/StructureDefinition/patient-friendly-display

Response

Status: 200 OK
{
  "resourceType": "StructureDefinition",
  "id": "patient-friendly-display",
  "url": "https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/dstu2/StructureDefinition/patient-friendly-display",
  "name": "Patient-Friendly Display",
  "status": "draft",
  "publisher": "Cerner",
  "date": "2016-12-13",
  "description": "An expression of the original string in terminology that patients should be able to understand",
  "fhirVersion": "1.0.2",
  "kind": "datatype",
  "constrainedType": "Extension",
  "abstract": false,
  "contextType": "datatype",
  "context": [
    "string"
  ],
  "base": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension",
  "snapshot": {
    "element": [
      {
        "path": "Extension",
        "short": "String equivalent with patient-friendly terminology",
        "definition": "An expression of the original string in terminology that patients should be able to understand",
        "min": 0,
        "max": "1",
        "base": {
          "path": "Extension",
          "min": 0,
          "max": "*"
        },
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "Extension"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.id",
        "representation": [
          "xmlAttr"
        ],
        "short": "xml:id (or equivalent in JSON)",
        "definition": "unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references).",
        "min": 0,
        "max": "1",
        "base": {
          "path": "Extension.id",
          "min": 0,
          "max": "1"
        },
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "id"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.extension",
        "name": "extension",
        "short": "Extension",
        "definition": "An Extension",
        "min": 0,
        "max": "0",
        "base": {
          "path": "Extension.extension",
          "min": 0,
          "max": "*"
        },
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "Extension"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.url",
        "representation": [
          "xmlAttr"
        ],
        "short": "identifies the meaning of the extension",
        "definition": "Source of the definition for the extension code - a logical name or a URL.",
        "comments": "The definition may point directly to a computable or human-readable definition of the extensibility codes, or it may be a logical URI as declared in some other specification. The definition should be version specific.  This will ideally be the URI for the Resource Profile defining the extension, with the code for the extension after a #.",
        "min": 1,
        "max": "1",
        "base": {
          "path": "Extension.url",
          "min": 1,
          "max": "1"
        },
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "uri"
          }
        ],
        "fixedUri": "https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/dstu2/StructureDefinition/patient-friendly-display"
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.valueString",
        "short": "Value of extension",
        "definition": "Value of extension - may be a resource or one of a constrained set of the data types (see Extensibility in the spec for list).",
        "min": 1,
        "max": "1",
        "base": {
          "path": "Extension.value[x]",
          "min": 0,
          "max": "1"
        },
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "string"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "differential": {
    "element": [
      {
        "path": "Extension",
        "short": "String equivalent with patient-friendly terminology",
        "definition": "An expression of the original string in terminology that patients should be able to understand",
        "min": 0,
        "max": "1",
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "Extension"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.extension",
        "name": "extension",
        "max": "0"
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.url",
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "uri"
          }
        ],
        "fixedUri": "https://fhir-ehr.cerner.com/dstu2/StructureDefinition/patient-friendly-display"
      },
      {
        "path": "Extension.value[x]",
        "min": 1,
        "type": [
          {
            "code": "string"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Note: The examples provided here are non-normative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site.

List of StructureDefinitions

ID Description
patient-friendly-display Display string suitable for patient viewing.
scheduling-location Reference to the location of an appointment being scheduled.
medication-statement-category Category of an order.
infuse-over-time The length of time in minutes it took to infuse a medication.
encounter-guarantor The guarantors of an encounter. Contains a reference to a Patient, Person, or Organization and a period when the guarantor is effective.