A pattern to be followed by resources that represent a publishable knowledge artifact such as a ValueSet, Profile, Library, Decision Support Rule, or Quality Measure.

The Publishable pattern is defined to ensure that artifacts have enough metadata to understand when, where, and why a particular artifact would be used, as well as who contributed to it, who reviewed or endorsed it, and what evidence supports its use. The pattern is about ensuring artifacts can establish trust and credibility, as well as carry enough metadata to be discoverable in a public repository or artifact catalog.

The Publishable pattern builds on the Shareable pattern and establishes the expectations for publication and distribution of an artifact as part of an artifact repository.

A formal identifier that is used to identify this {{title}} when it is represented in other formats, or referenced in a specification, model, design or an instance.

Allows externally provided and/or usable business identifiers to be easily associated with the module.

Typically, this is used for identifiers that can go in an HL7 V3 II (instance identifier) data type, and can then identify this {{title}} outside of FHIR, where it is not possible to use the logical URI.

The date (and optionally time) when the {{title}} was last significantly changed. The date must change when the business version changes and it must change if the status code changes. In addition, it should change when the substantive content of the {{title}} changes.

The date is often not tracked until the resource is published, but may be present on draft content. Note that this is not the same as the resource last-modified-date, since the resource may be a secondary representation of the {{title}}. Additional specific dates may be added as extensions or be found by consulting Provenances associated with past versions of the resource.

Contact details to assist a user in finding and communicating with the publisher.

May be a web site, an email address, a telephone number, etc.

The content was developed with a focus and intent of supporting the contexts that are listed. These contexts may be general categories (gender, age, ...) or may be references to specific programs (insurance plans, studies, ...) and may be used to assist with indexing and searching for appropriate {{title}} instances.

Assist in searching for appropriate content.

When multiple useContexts are specified, there is no expectation that all or any of the contexts apply.

A legal or geographic region in which the {{title}} is intended to be used.

It may be possible for the {{title}} to be used in jurisdictions other than those for which it was originally designed or intended.

Explanation of why this {{title}} is needed and why it has been designed as it has.

This element does not describe the usage of the {{title}}. Instead, it provides traceability of ''why'' the resource is either needed or ''why'' it is defined as it is. This may be used to point to source materials or specifications that drove the structure of this {{title}}.

A copyright statement relating to the {{title}} and/or its contents. Copyright statements are generally legal restrictions on the use and publishing of the {{title}}.

Consumers must be able to determine any legal restrictions on the use of the {{title}} and/or its content.

A short string (<50 characters), suitable for inclusion in a page footer that identifies the copyright holder, effective period, and optionally whether rights are resctricted. (e.g. 'All rights reserved', 'Some rights reserved').

Defines the content expected to be rendered in all representations of the artifact.

The (c) symbol should NOT be included in this string. It will be added by software when rendering the notation. Full details about licensing, restrictions, warrantees, etc. goes in the more general 'copyright' element.

The date on which the resource content was approved by the publisher. Approval happens once when the content is officially approved for usage.

The 'date' element may be more recent than the approval date because of minor changes or editorial corrections.

The date on which the resource content was last reviewed. Review happens periodically after approval but does not change the original approval date.

Gives a sense of how "current" the content is. Resources that have not been reviewed in a long time may have a risk of being less appropriate/relevant.

If specified, this date follows the original approval date.

The period during which the {{title}} content was or is planned to be in active use.

Allows establishing a transition before a resource comes into effect and also allows for a sunsetting process when new versions of the {{title}} are or are expected to be used instead.

The effective period for a {{title}} determines when the content is applicable for usage and is independent of publication and review dates. For example, a measure intended to be used for the year 2016 might be published in 2015.

Descriptive topics related to the content of the library. Topics provide a high-level categorization of the library that can be useful for filtering and searching.

Repositories must be able to determine how to categorize the {{title}} so that it can be found by topical searches.

This element provides a topical categorization of the {{title}}, as opposed to the more structured context-of-use information provided in the useContext element.

An individiual or organization primarily involved in the creation and maintenance of the {{title}}.

An individual or organization primarily responsible for internal coherence of the {{title}}.

An individual or organization asserted by the publisher to be primarily responsible for review of some aspect of the {{title}}.

An individual or organization asserted by the publisher to be responsible for officially endorsing the {{title}} for use in some setting.

Related artifacts such as additional documentation, justification, dependencies, bibliographic references, and predecessor and successor artifacts.

A {{title}} must be able to provide enough information for consumers of the content (and/or interventions or results produced by the content) to be able to determine and understand the justification for and evidence in support of the content.

Each related artifact is either an attachment, or a reference to another resource, but not both.