FHIR R4 Symptoms Implementation Guide
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FHIR R4 Symptoms Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Clinical Interoperability Council. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-symptoms-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

ValueSet: Severity Codes

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/symptoms/ValueSet/SeverityCodes Version: 1.0.0-ballot
Standards status: Trial-use Active as of 2025-12-17 Maturity Level: 1 Computable Name: SeverityCodes

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Set of SNOMED codes to describe the symptom severity.

References

Logical Definition (CLD)

  • Include codes fromhttp://snomed.info/sct version Not Stated (use latest from terminology server) where concept descends from 272141005 (Severities)

 

Expansion

Expansion from tx.fhir.org based on SNOMED CT International edition 01-Feb 2025

This value set expansion contains 7 concepts.

SystemCodeDisplay (en)JSONXML
http://snomed.info/sct  6736007Midgrade
http://snomed.info/sct  24484000Severe
http://snomed.info/sct  255604002Mild
http://snomed.info/sct  371923003Mild to moderate (qualifier value)
http://snomed.info/sct  371924009Moderate to severe (qualifier value)
http://snomed.info/sct  399166001Fatal (qualifier value)
http://snomed.info/sct  442452003Life threatening severity

Description of the above table(s).