# US Quality Core QuestionnaireResponse - 2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide v0.5.0

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **US Quality Core QuestionnaireResponse**

## Resource Profile: US Quality Core QuestionnaireResponse 

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| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-questionnaireresponse | *Version*:0.5.0 |
| Active as of 2026-05-15 | *Computable Name*:USQualityCoreQuestionnaireResponse |
| **Copyright/Legal**: Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License | |

 
The US Quality 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. 

### Guidance

  Reference Guidance for use of the QuestionnaireResponse profile can be found [here.](http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/STU6.1/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

 

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

 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [US Quality Core NonPatient Observation](StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-nonpatient-observation.md), [US Quality Core Observation Screening Assessment](StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-observation-screening-assessment.md), [US Quality Core Observation Cancelled](StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-observationcancelled.md) and [US Quality Core Simple Observation](StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-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/resource/fhir.onc.us-quality-core|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-us-quality-core-questionnaireresponse.json)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

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



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "us-quality-core-questionnaireresponse",
  "url" : "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-questionnaireresponse",
  "version" : "0.5.0",
  "name" : "USQualityCoreQuestionnaireResponse",
  "title" : "US Quality Core QuestionnaireResponse",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2026-05-15",
  "publisher" : "Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.healthit.gov/feedback"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "The US Quality 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.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
      "code" : "US",
      "display" : "United States of America"
    }],
    "text" : "USA"
  }],
  "copyright" : "Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "workflow",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/workflow",
    "name" : "Workflow Pattern"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "w5",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
    "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "QuestionnaireResponse",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-questionnaireresponse|6.1.0",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse",
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse"
    },
    {
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse.subject",
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/uscdi-requirement",
        "valueBoolean" : true
      }],
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse.subject",
      "short" : "(USCDI) The subject of the questions",
      "comment" : "-",
      "min" : 1,
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Reference",
        "targetProfile" : ["http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-patient"]
      }]
    },
    {
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse.author",
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/uscdi-requirement",
        "valueBoolean" : true
      }],
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse.author",
      "short" : "(USCDI) Person who received and recorded the answers",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Reference",
        "targetProfile" : ["http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-practitioner",
        "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-organization",
        "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-patient",
        "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-practitionerrole",
        "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-device",
        "http://fhir.org/guides/onc/us-quality-core/StructureDefinition/us-quality-core-relatedperson",
        "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-implantable-device|6.1.0"]
      }]
    },
    {
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item",
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/uscdi-requirement",
        "valueBoolean" : true
      }],
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item",
      "short" : "(USCDI) Groups and questions"
    },
    {
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item.linkId",
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/uscdi-requirement",
        "valueBoolean" : true
      }],
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item.linkId",
      "short" : "(USCDI) Pointer to specific item from Questionnaire"
    },
    {
      "id" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item.answer.value[x]",
      "extension" : [{
        "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/uscdi-requirement",
        "valueBoolean" : true
      }],
      "path" : "QuestionnaireResponse.item.answer.value[x]",
      "short" : "(USCDI) Single-valued answer to the question",
      "min" : 0,
      "max" : "1",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Coding"
      },
      {
        "code" : "string"
      },
      {
        "code" : "decimal"
      },
      {
        "code" : "date"
      },
      {
        "code" : "dateTime"
      },
      {
        "code" : "integer"
      },
      {
        "code" : "Quantity"
      }]
    }]
  }
}

```
