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Responsible Owner: FHIR Infrastructure Work Group |
Normative | Use Context: Country: World |
Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/definition-resource-types
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Version: 6.0.0-ballot3 | |||
| active as of 2025-11-27 | Computable Name: DefinitionResourceTypes | |||
| Flags: Immutable | OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.1056 | |||
This value set is not currently used
All Resource Types that represent definition resources
Generated Narrative: ValueSet definition-resource-types
Last updated: 2025-11-27T16:48:47.349Z
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types version 📦6.0.0-ballot3| Code | Display | Definition |
| ActivityDefinition | ActivityDefinition | This resource allows for the definition of some activity to be performed, independent of a particular patient, practitioner, or other performance context. |
| ClinicalUseDefinition | ClinicalUseDefinition | A single issue - either an indication, contraindication, interaction, undesirable effect or warning for a medicinal product, medication, device or procedure. |
| EventDefinition | EventDefinition | The EventDefinition resource provides a reusable description of when a particular event can occur. |
| Measure | Measure | The Measure resource provides the definition of a quality measure. |
| MessageDefinition | MessageDefinition | Defines the characteristics of a message that can be shared between systems, including the type of event that initiates the message, the content to be transmitted and what response(s), if any, are permitted. |
| ObservationDefinition | ObservationDefinition | Set of definitional characteristics for a kind of observation or measurement produced or consumed by an orderable health care service. |
| OperationDefinition | OperationDefinition | A formal computable definition of an operation (on the RESTful interface) or a named query (using the search interaction). |
| PlanDefinition | PlanDefinition | This resource allows for the definition of various types of plans as a sharable, consumable, and executable artifact. The resource is general enough to support the description of a broad range of clinical and non-clinical artifacts such as clinical decision support rules, order sets, protocols, drug quality specifications, and drug manufacturing process. |
| Questionnaire | Questionnaire | A structured set of questions intended to guide the collection of answers from end-users. Questionnaires provide detailed control over order, presentation, phraseology and grouping to allow coherent, consistent data collection. |
| Requirements | Requirements | The Requirements resource is used to describe an actor - a human or an application that plays a role in data exchange, and that may have obligations associated with the role the actor plays. |
| SubscriptionTopic | SubscriptionTopic | Describes a stream of resource state changes identified by trigger criteria and annotated with labels useful to filter projections from this topic. |
This expansion generated 27 Nov 2025
ValueSet
Expansion performed internally based on codesystem All FHIR Types v6.0.0-ballot3 (CodeSystem)
This value set contains 11 concepts
| System | Code | Display | Definition |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
ActivityDefinition | ActivityDefinition | This resource allows for the definition of some activity to be performed, independent of a particular patient, practitioner, or other performance context. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
ClinicalUseDefinition | ClinicalUseDefinition | A single issue - either an indication, contraindication, interaction, undesirable effect or warning for a medicinal product, medication, device or procedure. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
EventDefinition | EventDefinition | The EventDefinition resource provides a reusable description of when a particular event can occur. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
Measure | Measure | The Measure resource provides the definition of a quality measure. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
MessageDefinition | MessageDefinition | Defines the characteristics of a message that can be shared between systems, including the type of event that initiates the message, the content to be transmitted and what response(s), if any, are permitted. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
ObservationDefinition | ObservationDefinition | Set of definitional characteristics for a kind of observation or measurement produced or consumed by an orderable health care service. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
OperationDefinition | OperationDefinition | A formal computable definition of an operation (on the RESTful interface) or a named query (using the search interaction). |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
PlanDefinition | PlanDefinition | This resource allows for the definition of various types of plans as a sharable, consumable, and executable artifact. The resource is general enough to support the description of a broad range of clinical and non-clinical artifacts such as clinical decision support rules, order sets, protocols, drug quality specifications, and drug manufacturing process. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
Questionnaire | Questionnaire | A structured set of questions intended to guide the collection of answers from end-users. Questionnaires provide detailed control over order, presentation, phraseology and grouping to allow coherent, consistent data collection. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
Requirements | Requirements | The Requirements resource is used to describe an actor - a human or an application that plays a role in data exchange, and that may have obligations associated with the role the actor plays. |
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types |
SubscriptionTopic | SubscriptionTopic | Describes a stream of resource state changes identified by trigger criteria and annotated with labels useful to filter projections from this topic. |
See the full registry of value sets defined as part of FHIR.
Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:
| Lvl | A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. For value sets, levels are mostly used to organize codes for user convenience, but may follow code system hierarchy - see Code System for further information |
| Source | The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere) |
| Code | The code (used as the code in the resource instance). If the code is in italics, this indicates that the code is not selectable ('Abstract') |
| Display | The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application |
| Definition | An explanation of the meaning of the concept |
| Comments | Additional notes about how to use the code |