Clinical Quality Language Specification
2.0.0-ballot - R2 STU 1 (Ballot)

Clinical Quality Language Specification, published by Clinical Decision Support WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cql/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : CQL Message Severity Codes - XML Representation

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    <CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
      <id value="cql-message-severity-codes"/>
      <text>
        <status value="generated"/>
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem cql-message-severity-codes</b></p><a name="cql-message-severity-codes"> </a><a name="hccql-message-severity-codes"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://cql.hl7.org/CodeSystem/cql-message-severity-codes</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">info<a name="cql-message-severity-codes-info"> </a></td><td>Info</td><td>The message is informational and is expected to be made available in some way to the calling environment, but does not indicate any particular problem or issue that must be addressed.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">warning<a name="cql-message-severity-codes-warning"> </a></td><td>Warning</td><td>The message is a warning that is expected to be made conspicuously available to the calling environment, potentially to the end-user of the logic, and indicates that there is a problem or issue that should be addressed, but does not necessarily need to stop processing.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">error<a name="cql-message-severity-codes-error"> </a></td><td>Error</td><td>The message is an error that must be made available to the calling environment, and indicates that there is a problem or issue of sufficient severity that at least some processing cannot be completed until the issue is addressed.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">fatal<a name="cql-message-severity-codes-fatal"> </a></td><td>Fatal</td><td>The message is a fatal situation that must be made available to the calling environment, and indicates that there is a significant problem or issue that stopped processing completely. No further processing can be completed until the issue is addressed.</td></tr></table></div>
      </text>
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      <url value="http://cql.hl7.org/CodeSystem/cql-message-severity-codes"/>
      <version value="2.0.0-ballot"/>
      <name value="CQLMessageSeverityCodes"/>
      <title value="CQL Message Severity Codes"/>
      <status value="active"/>
      <experimental value="false"/>
      <date value="2025-10-24T16:45:25+00:00"/>
      <publisher value="Clinical Decision Support WG"/>
      <contact>
        <telecom>
          <system value="url"/>
          <value value="http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/dss/index.cfm"/>
        </telecom>
      </contact>
      <description
                   value="Codes for severity of messages returned by applications that process Clinical Quality Language, indicating what level of processing should occur for the message."/>
      <caseSensitive value="true"/>
      <valueSet value="http://cql.hl7.org/ValueSet/cql-message-severity"/>
      <content value="complete"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="info"/>
        <display value="Info"/>
        <definition
                    value="The message is informational and is expected to be made available in some way to the calling environment, but does not indicate any particular problem or issue that must be addressed."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="warning"/>
        <display value="Warning"/>
        <definition
                    value="The message is a warning that is expected to be made conspicuously available to the calling environment, potentially to the end-user of the logic, and indicates that there is a problem or issue that should be addressed, but does not necessarily need to stop processing."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="error"/>
        <display value="Error"/>
        <definition
                    value="The message is an error that must be made available to the calling environment, and indicates that there is a problem or issue of sufficient severity that at least some processing cannot be completed until the issue is addressed."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="fatal"/>
        <display value="Fatal"/>
        <definition
                    value="The message is a fatal situation that must be made available to the calling environment, and indicates that there is a significant problem or issue that stopped processing completely. No further processing can be completed until the issue is addressed."/>
      </concept>
    </CodeSystem>