Kenya Emergency FHIR Implementation Guide
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Kenya Emergency FHIR Implementation Guide, published by Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IntelliSOFT-Consulting/Kenya-Emmergency-FHIR-IG/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: Emergency Diagnosis Staging Category - XML Representation

Active as of 2026-07-20

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<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="em-diagnosis-category"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem em-diagnosis-category</b></p><a name="em-diagnosis-category"> </a><a name="hcem-diagnosis-category"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>https://nshr-uat.sha.go.ke/fhir/CodeSystem/em-diagnosis-category</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">chief-complaint<a name="em-diagnosis-category-chief-complaint"> </a></td><td>Chief complaint</td><td>The caller- or patient-reported reason for the emergency, captured before clinical assessment.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">working-diagnosis<a name="em-diagnosis-category-working-diagnosis"> </a></td><td>Working diagnosis</td><td>A single leading diagnosis suspected by the emergency team during assessment or treatment.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">differential-diagnosis<a name="em-diagnosis-category-differential-diagnosis"> </a></td><td>Differential diagnosis</td><td>One of several diagnoses under active consideration during assessment or treatment.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">discharge-diagnosis<a name="em-diagnosis-category-discharge-diagnosis"> </a></td><td>Discharge diagnosis</td><td>The diagnosis assigned when the emergency encounter or episode is closed.</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="https://nshr-uat.sha.go.ke/fhir/CodeSystem/em-diagnosis-category"/>
  <version value="0.1.0"/>
  <name value="EMDiagnosisCategoryCS"/>
  <title value="Emergency Diagnosis Staging Category"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2026-07-20T11:03:05+00:00"/>
  <publisher value="Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://dha.go.ke"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="info@dha.go.ke"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <contact>
    <name value="Digital Health Agency Kenya – FHIR Team"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="info@dha.go.ke"/>
      <use value="work"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://dha.go.ke"/>
      <use value="work"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="Diagnostic stage represented by an emergency Condition instance, from initial
chief complaint through discharge diagnosis."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="KE"/>
      <display value="Kenya"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <count value="4"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="chief-complaint"/>
    <display value="Chief complaint"/>
    <definition
                value="The caller- or patient-reported reason for the emergency, captured before clinical assessment."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="working-diagnosis"/>
    <display value="Working diagnosis"/>
    <definition
                value="A single leading diagnosis suspected by the emergency team during assessment or treatment."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="differential-diagnosis"/>
    <display value="Differential diagnosis"/>
    <definition
                value="One of several diagnoses under active consideration during assessment or treatment."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="discharge-diagnosis"/>
    <display value="Discharge diagnosis"/>
    <definition
                value="The diagnosis assigned when the emergency encounter or episode is closed."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>