Clinical Practice Guidelines
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Clinical Practice Guidelines, published by HL7 International / Clinical Decision Support. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 3.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cqf-recommendations/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

CapabilityStatement: CPG Narrative Service Capabilities

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/cpg/CapabilityStatement/cpg-narrative-service Version: 3.0.0-ballot
Active as of 2026-11-02 Computable Name: CPGNarrativeServiceCapabilities
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.48.13.8

Expected capabilities of a CPG Narrative Service, which returns the guideline narrative relevant to a clinical context.

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Language: en

CPG Narrative Service Capabilities

  • Implementation Guide Version: 3.0.0-ballot
  • FHIR Version: 4.0.1
  • Supported Formats: json, xml
  • Published on: 2026-11-02
  • Published by: HL7 International / Clinical Decision Support

Note to Implementers: FHIR Capabilities

Any FHIR capability may be 'allowed' by the system unless explicitly marked as 'SHALL NOT'. A few items are marked as MAY in the Implementation Guide to highlight their potential relevance to the use case.

FHIR RESTful Capabilities

Mode: server

Capabilities by Resource/Profile

Summary

The summary table lists the resources that are part of this configuration, and for each resource it lists:

  • The relevant profiles (if any)
  • The interactions supported by each resource (Read, Search, Update, and Create, are always shown, while VRead, Patch, Delete, History on Instance, or History on Type are only present if at least one of the resources has support for them.
  • The required, recommended, and some optional search parameters (if any).
  • The linked resources enabled for _include
  • The other resources enabled for _revinclude
  • The operations on the resource (if any)
Resource TypeProfileRSUCSearches_include_revincludeOperations
PlanDefinition yy$apply
Core FHIR Resource
PlanDefinition
Reference Policy
Interaction summary
  • Supports read, search-type.

Extended Operations
ConformanceOperationDocumentation
SHALL$apply

Returns the guideline narrative relevant to the given context as documentation-only actions. The same guidance MAY also be delivered as CDS Hooks cards that link to the narrative.