Clinical Document Architecture, published by Health Level 7. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.1-sd built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/CDA-core-sd/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Not all the data types in the abstract data type definitions are described in this definition of CDA, since not all of the data types feature in CDA, or they are absorbed into the infrastructure in these definitions. This table provides information for each of the types that are not present.
Collection Types | |
BAG | The BAG type is not used in CDA |
LIST | All repeating elements are LIST type in these definitions. Whether the order has significance or not depends on definition of the data element |
SET | ? not sure what to say |
SLIST | Sampled Lists are not used in CDA |
GLIST | Generated Sequences are not used in CDA |
GTS | |
GTS | The abstract type General Timing Specification becomes a choice of SXCM_TS, IVL_TS, EIVL_TS, PIVL_TS and SXPR_TS |
Unused types | |
Datatype | The Meta type "Datatype" is not used in CDA |
BN | The BooleanNonNull type is not used in CDA |
HXIT | The History Item type is not used in CDA |
HIST | The History type is not used in CDA |
UVP | The Uncertain Value type is not used in CDA |
PPD | The History Item type is not used in CDA |
NPPD | blah |