National Healthcare Directory Query
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National Healthcare Directory Query, published by HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group. This is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot). This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-directory-query/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : Language Proficiency Code System - XML Representation

Active as of 2022-12-08

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    <CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
      <id value="LanguageProficiencyCS"/>
      <text>
        <status value="generated"/>
        <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/us/directory-query/CodeSystem/LanguageProficiencyCS</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">00<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-00"> </a></td><td>No proficiency</td><td>Unable to function in the spoken language.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">10<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-10"> </a></td><td>Elementary proficiency</td><td>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.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">20<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-20"> </a></td><td>Limited working proficiency</td><td>Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">30<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-30"> </a></td><td>General professional proficiency</td><td>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.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">40<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-40"> </a></td><td>Advanced professional proficiency</td><td>Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional needs.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">50<a name="LanguageProficiencyCS-50"> </a></td><td>Functional native proficiency</td><td>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.</td></tr></table></div>
      </text>
      <url
           value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/directory-query/CodeSystem/LanguageProficiencyCS"/>
      <version value="1.0.0-ballot"/>
      <name value="LanguageProficiencyCS"/>
      <title value="Language Proficiency Code System"/>
      <status value="active"/>
      <experimental value="false"/>
      <date value="2022-12-08T23:00:33+00:00"/>
      <publisher value="HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group"/>
      <contact>
        <name value="HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group"/>
        <telecom>
          <system value="url"/>
          <value value="http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pafm"/>
        </telecom>
        <telecom>
          <system value="email"/>
          <value value="pafm@lists.hl7.org"/>
        </telecom>
      </contact>
      <description
                   value="Codes for documenting spoken language proficiency based on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale of abilities to communicate in a language."/>
      <jurisdiction>
        <coding>
          <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
          <code value="US"/>
        </coding>
      </jurisdiction>
      <caseSensitive value="true"/>
      <content value="complete"/>
      <count value="6"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="00"/>
        <display value="No proficiency"/>
        <definition value="Unable to function in the spoken language."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="10"/>
        <display value="Elementary proficiency"/>
        <definition
                    value="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."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="20"/>
        <display value="Limited working proficiency"/>
        <definition
                    value="Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="30"/>
        <display value="General professional proficiency"/>
        <definition
                    value="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."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="40"/>
        <display value="Advanced professional proficiency"/>
        <definition
                    value="Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional needs."/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="50"/>
        <display value="Functional native proficiency"/>
        <definition
                    value="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."/>
      </concept>
    </CodeSystem>