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: VhDir Spoken Language Proficiency Code System - JSON Representation

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{
  "resourceType" : "CodeSystem",
  "id" : "languageproficiency",
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">Placeholder</div>"
  },
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/vhdir/CodeSystem/languageproficiency",
  "version" : "0.2.0",
  "name" : "VhDirSpokenLanguageProficiency",
  "title" : "VhDir Spoken Language Proficiency Code System",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2018-02-21",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/pafm"
        },
        {
          "system" : "email",
          "value" : "pafm@lists.HL7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "This code system contains codes for documenting the attributes of spoken language proficiency",
  "jurisdiction" : [
    {
      "coding" : [
        {
          "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
          "code" : "US"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "copyright" : "Used by permission of HL7 International all rights reserved Creative Commons License",
  "caseSensitive" : true,
  "content" : "complete",
  "concept" : [
    {
      "code" : "00",
      "display" : "No proficiency",
      "definition" : "Unable to function in the spoken language."
    },
    {
      "code" : "06",
      "display" : "Memorized proficiency",
      "definition" : "Able to satisfy immediate needs using rehearsed utterances. Shows little real autonomy of expression, flexibility or spontaneity."
    },
    {
      "code" : "10",
      "display" : "Elementary proficiency",
      "definition" : "Able to satisfy minimum courtesy requirements and maintain very simple face-to-face conversations on familiar topics. A native speaker must often use slowed speech, repetition, paraphrase, or a combination of these to be understood by this individual."
    },
    {
      "code" : "16",
      "display" : "Elementary proficiency, plus",
      "definition" : "Can initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy limited social demands."
    },
    {
      "code" : "20",
      "display" : "Limited working proficiency",
      "definition" : "Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements."
    },
    {
      "code" : "26",
      "display" : "Limited working proficiency, plus",
      "definition" : "Able to satisfy most work requirements with language usage that is often, but not always, acceptable and effective."
    },
    {
      "code" : "30",
      "display" : "General professional proficiency",
      "definition" : "Able to speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations in practical, social and professional topics."
    },
    {
      "code" : "36",
      "display" : "General professional proficiency, plus",
      "definition" : "Is often able to use the language to satisfy professional needs in a wide range of sophisticated and demanding tasks."
    },
    {
      "code" : "40",
      "display" : "Advanced professional proficiency",
      "definition" : "Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional needs."
    },
    {
      "code" : "46",
      "display" : "Advanced professional proficiency, plus",
      "definition" : "Speaking proficiency is regularly superior in all respects, usually equivalent to that of a well educated, highly articulate native speaker."
    },
    {
      "code" : "50",
      "display" : "Functional native proficiency",
      "definition" : "Speaking proficiency is functionally equivalent to that of a highly articulate well-educated native speaker and reflects the cultural standards of the country where the language is natively spoken."
    }
  ]
}