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: Dependency Role Codes

Page standards status: Trial-use

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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem dependency-role-codes</b></p><a name="dependency-role-codes"> </a><a name="hcdependency-role-codes"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/dependency-role-codes</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">default<a name="dependency-role-codes-default"> </a></td><td>Default</td><td><div><p>A dependency that does not otherwise have a specific role. There is no need to state that a dependency plays a default role, this code is used in the include parameter to indicate whether default dependencies are included in the package.</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">key<a name="dependency-role-codes-key"> </a></td><td>Key</td><td><div><p>A dependency that is included because it is referenced from a <a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#model-views">key element</a>.</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">example<a name="dependency-role-codes-example"> </a></td><td>Example</td><td><div><p>A dependency that is included because it is part of an example, or referenced from an example context (e.g. a ValueSet referenced from an example binding).</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">test<a name="dependency-role-codes-test"> </a></td><td>Test</td><td><div><p>A dependency that is included because it is part of a test.</p>
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  <date value="2026-05-11T04:30:28+00:00"/>
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