# QICore QuestionnaireResponse - QI-Core Implementation Guide v8.0.0-ballot

## Resource Profile: QICore QuestionnaireResponse 

 
The QI-Core QuestionnaireResponse Profile is based upon the US Core QuestionnaireResponse Profile and sets minimum expectations for the QuestionnaireResponse resource to record, search, and fetch retrieve captures the responses to form/survey and defines the core set of elements and extensions for quality rule and measure authors. 

"Must Have", "QI Elements" and "primary code path" are defined in the
[QI-Core Must Support section](index.md#mustsupport-flag).

**Must Have:**
* questionnaire: (QI) Form being answered
* status: in-progress | completed | amended | entered-in-error | stopped
* subject: (QI) The subject of the questions
* authored: Date the answers were gathered

**QI Elements:**
* item: (QI) Groups and questions
* author: (QI) Person who received and recorded the answers

**Primary code path:**questionnaire

(PCPath) This element is the primary code path for this resource
[CQL Retrieve](https://cql.hl7.org/02-authorsguide.html#retrieve)

### Guidance

 Reference Guidance for use of the QuestionnaireResponse profile can be found[here.](http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/STU8/StructureDefinition-us-core-questionnaireresponse.html#mandatory-and-must-support-data-elements)
* See the [Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)](https://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/sdoh.html) Guidance Page for how this profile *along with other Observation Profiles or alternatively QuestionnaireResponse* to is used represent SDOH assessments.
 

**Usage**
 See the[patterns](patterns.md)page for implementation and usage patterns. 

### Examples

 

| |
| :--- |
| [PHQ-9 QuestionnaireResponse Example](QuestionnaireResponse-PHQ-9-example.md) |

 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [QICore NonPatient Observation](StructureDefinition-qicore-nonpatient-observation.md), [QICore Observation Screening Assessment](StructureDefinition-qicore-observation-screening-assessment.md) and [QICore Simple Observation](StructureDefinition-qicore-simple-observation.md)
* Examples for this Profile: [QuestionnaireResponse/PHQ-9-example](QuestionnaireResponse-PHQ-9-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/hl7.fhir.us.qicore|current/StructureDefinition/qicore-questionnaireresponse)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description Differentials, Snapshots, and other representations](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](../StructureDefinition-qicore-questionnaireresponse.csv), [Excel](../StructureDefinition-qicore-questionnaireresponse.xlsx), [Schematron](../StructureDefinition-qicore-questionnaireresponse.sch) 



## Resource Content

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      "valueBoolean" : true
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      "valueBoolean" : true
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```
