OpenEHR Base package
0.1.0 - First Draft
OpenEHR Base package
0.1.0 - First Draft
OpenEHR Base package, published by openEHR + HL7. 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/openehr-fhir/base-spec/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
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XML representation of the SECTION logical model.
<StructureDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
<id value="SECTION"/>
<text>
<status value="extensions"/>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: StructureDefinition SECTION</b></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana; vertical-align: top;"><tr style="border: 1px #F0F0F0 solid; font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana; vertical-align: top"><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px" class="hierarchy"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="The logical name of the element">Name</a></th><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px" class="hierarchy"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Information about the use of the element">Flags</a></th><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px" class="hierarchy"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Minimum and Maximum # of times the element can appear in the instance">Card.</a></th><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; width: 100px" class="hierarchy"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Reference to the type of the element">Type</a></th><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px" class="hierarchy"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Additional information about the element">Description & Constraints</a><span style="float: right"><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Legend for this format"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="doco" style="background-color: inherit"/></a></span></th></tr><tr style="border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: white"><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: url(tbl_bck1.png)" class="hierarchy"><img src="tbl_spacer.png" alt="." style="background-color: inherit" class="hierarchy"/><img src="icon_element.gif" alt="." style="background-color: white; background-color: inherit" title="Element" class="hierarchy"/> <a href="StructureDefinition-SECTION-definitions.html#SECTION" title="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree. Created according to archetyped structures for typical headings such as SOAP, physical examination, but also pathology result heading structures. Should not be used instead of `ENTRY` hierarchical structures.
">SECTION</a><a name="SECTION"> </a></td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy"><a style="padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; border: 1px maroon solid; font-weight: bold; color: #301212; background-color: #fdf4f4;; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; border: 1px maroon solid; font-weight: bold; color: #301212; background-color: #fdf4f4;" href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R5/conformance-rules.html#constraints" title="This element has or is affected by constraints ( Items_valid )">C</a></td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy">0..*</td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy"><a href="StructureDefinition-CONTENT-ITEM.html">CONTENT_ITEM</a></td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: white; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy">Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree.<br/><br/>Elements defined in Ancestors:<a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Runtime name of this fragment, used to build runtime paths. This is the term provided via a clinical application or batch process to name this EHR construct: its retention in the EHR faithfully preserves the original label by which this entry was known to end users.
">name</a>, <a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Design-time archetype identifier of this node taken from its generating archetype; used to build archetype paths. Always in the form of an at-code, e.g. `at0005`. This value enables a 'standardised' name for this node to be generated, by referring to the generating archetype local terminology.
At an archetype root point, the value of this attribute is always the stringified form of the `_archetype_id_` found in the `_archetype_details_` object.
">archetype_node_id</a>, <a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Optional globally unique object identifier for root points of archetyped structures. ">uid</a>, <a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Links to other archetyped structures (data whose root object inherits from `ARCHETYPED`, such as `ENTRY`, `SECTION` and so on). Links may be to structures in other compositions. ">links</a>, <a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Details of archetyping used on this node.">archetype_details</a>, <a href="StructureDefinition-LOCATABLE.html" title="Audit trail from non-openEHR system of original commit of information forming the content of this node, or from a conversion gateway which has synthesised this node. ">feeder_audit</a><br class="constraint"/><span title="null" class="constraint">Constraints: </span><span style="font-weight:bold" title="Items valid must be present" class="constraint">Items_valid</span><br/></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px; vertical-align: top; background-color: #F7F7F7"><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px; white-space: nowrap; background-image: url(tbl_bck00.png)" class="hierarchy"><img src="tbl_spacer.png" alt="." style="background-color: inherit" class="hierarchy"/><img src="tbl_vjoin_end.png" alt="." style="background-color: inherit" class="hierarchy"/><img src="icon_resource.png" alt="." style="background-color: #F7F7F7; background-color: inherit" title="Resource" class="hierarchy"/> <a href="StructureDefinition-SECTION-definitions.html#SECTION.items" title="Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`.">items</a><a name="SECTION.items"> </a></td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy"/><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy">0..*</td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy"><a href="StructureDefinition-CONTENT-ITEM.html">CONTENT_ITEM</a></td><td style="vertical-align: top; text-align : var(--ig-left,left); background-color: #F7F7F7; border: 0px #F0F0F0 solid; padding:0px 4px 0px 4px" class="hierarchy">Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`.<br/></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="5" class="hierarchy"><br/><a href="https://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#table-views" title="Legend for this format"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="doco" style="background-color: inherit"/> Documentation for this format</a></td></tr></table></div>
</text>
<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/web-source">
<valueUrl
value="https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/RM/development/ehr.html#_section_class"/>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
<valueCode value="fhir"/>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/type-operation">
<valueCanonical value="#concept"/>
</extension>
<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/view-hint">
<valueCode value="element-view-replace-cardinality"/>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
<valueInteger value="3">
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-conformance-derivedFrom">
<valueCanonical
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/ImplementationGuide/openehr.base"/>
</extension>
</valueInteger>
</extension>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
<valueCode value="informative">
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-conformance-derivedFrom">
<valueCanonical
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/ImplementationGuide/openehr.base"/>
</extension>
</valueCode>
</extension>
<url value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/SECTION"/>
<version value="0.1.0"/>
<name value="SECTION"/>
<title value="SECTION"/>
<status value="active"/>
<experimental value="false"/>
<date value="2025-09-06T15:35:39+10:00"/>
<publisher value="openEHR + HL7"/>
<contact>
<telecom>
<system value="url"/>
<value value="http://www.openehr.org"/>
</telecom>
</contact>
<description
value="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree. Created according to archetyped structures for typical headings such as SOAP, physical examination, but also pathology result heading structures. Should not be used instead of `ENTRY` hierarchical structures.
"/>
<jurisdiction>
<coding>
<system value="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm"/>
<code value="001"/>
</coding>
</jurisdiction>
<fhirVersion value="5.0.0"/>
<mapping>
<identity value="rim"/>
<uri value="http://hl7.org/v3"/>
<name value="RIM Mapping"/>
</mapping>
<kind value="logical"/>
<abstract value="false"/>
<type value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/SECTION"/>
<baseDefinition
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/CONTENT-ITEM"/>
<derivation value="specialization"/>
<snapshot>
<extension
url="http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/snapshot-base-version">
<valueString value="0.1.0"/>
</extension>
<element id="SECTION">
<path value="SECTION"/>
<short
value="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree."/>
<definition
value="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree. Created according to archetyped structures for typical headings such as SOAP, physical examination, but also pathology result heading structures. Should not be used instead of `ENTRY` hierarchical structures.
"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
<base>
<path value="Base"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
</base>
<constraint>
<key value="Links_valid"/>
<severity value="error"/>
<human value="Links valid must be present"/>
<expression value="links.exists() implies links.empty().not()"/>
<source
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/LOCATABLE"/>
</constraint>
<constraint>
<key value="Archetyped_valid"/>
<severity value="error"/>
<human value="Archetyped valid must satisfy exclusive conditions"/>
<expression
value="is_archetype_root() xor archetype_details .empty()"/>
<source
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/LOCATABLE"/>
</constraint>
<constraint>
<key value="Archetype_node_id_valid"/>
<severity value="error"/>
<human value="Archetype node id valid must not be empty"/>
<expression value="archetype_node_id.empty().not()"/>
<source
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/LOCATABLE"/>
</constraint>
<constraint>
<key value="Items_valid"/>
<severity value="error"/>
<human value="Items valid must be present"/>
<expression value="items.exists() implies items.empty().not()"/>
</constraint>
<isModifier value="false"/>
<mapping>
<identity value="rim"/>
<map value="n/a"/>
</mapping>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.name">
<path value="SECTION.name"/>
<short
value="Runtime name of this fragment, used to build runtime paths."/>
<definition
value="Runtime name of this fragment, used to build runtime paths. This is the term provided via a clinical application or batch process to name this EHR construct: its retention in the EHR faithfully preserves the original label by which this entry was known to end users."/>
<min value="1"/>
<max value="1"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.name"/>
<min value="1"/>
<max value="1"/>
</base>
<type>
<code value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/DV-TEXT"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.archetype-node-id">
<path value="SECTION.archetype_node_id"/>
<short
value="Design-time archetype identifier of this node taken from its generating archetype; used to build archetype paths."/>
<definition
value="Design-time archetype identifier of this node taken from its generating archetype; used to build archetype paths. Always in the form of an at-code, e.g. `at0005`. This value enables a 'standardised' name for this node to be generated, by referring to the generating archetype local terminology.
At an archetype root point, the value of this attribute is always the stringified form of the `_archetype_id_` found in the `_archetype_details_` object."/>
<min value="1"/>
<max value="1"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.archetype_node_id"/>
<min value="1"/>
<max value="1"/>
</base>
<type>
<code value="string"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.uid">
<path value="SECTION.uid"/>
<short
value="Optional globally unique object identifier for root points of archetyped structures."/>
<definition
value="Optional globally unique object identifier for root points of archetyped structures."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.uid"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
</base>
<type>
<code
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/UID-BASED-ID"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.links">
<path value="SECTION.links"/>
<short
value="Links to other archetyped structures (data whose root object inherits from `ARCHETYPED`, such as `ENTRY`, `SECTION` and so on)."/>
<definition
value="Links to other archetyped structures (data whose root object inherits from `ARCHETYPED`, such as `ENTRY`, `SECTION` and so on). Links may be to structures in other compositions."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.links"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
</base>
<type>
<code value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/LINK"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.archetype-details">
<path value="SECTION.archetype_details"/>
<short value="Details of archetyping used on this node."/>
<definition value="Details of archetyping used on this node."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.archetype_details"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
</base>
<type>
<code value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/ARCHETYPED"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.feeder-audit">
<path value="SECTION.feeder_audit"/>
<short
value="Audit trail from non-openEHR system of original commit of information forming the content of this node, or from a conversion gateway which has synthesised this node."/>
<definition
value="Audit trail from non-openEHR system of original commit of information forming the content of this node, or from a conversion gateway which has synthesised this node."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
<base>
<path value="LOCATABLE.feeder_audit"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="1"/>
</base>
<type>
<code
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/FEEDER-AUDIT"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.items">
<path value="SECTION.items"/>
<short
value="Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`."/>
<definition
value="Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
<base>
<path value="SECTION.items"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
</base>
<type>
<code
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/CONTENT-ITEM"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
</snapshot>
<differential>
<element id="SECTION">
<path value="SECTION"/>
<short
value="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree."/>
<definition
value="Represents a heading in a heading structure, or section tree. Created according to archetyped structures for typical headings such as SOAP, physical examination, but also pathology result heading structures. Should not be used instead of `ENTRY` hierarchical structures.
"/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
<constraint>
<key value="Items_valid"/>
<severity value="error"/>
<human value="Items valid must be present"/>
<expression value="items.exists() implies items.empty().not()"/>
</constraint>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
<element id="SECTION.items">
<path value="SECTION.items"/>
<short
value="Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`."/>
<definition
value="Ordered list of content items under this section, which may include:
* more `SECTIONs`;
* `ENTRYs`."/>
<min value="0"/>
<max value="*"/>
<type>
<code
value="http://openehr.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/CONTENT-ITEM"/>
</type>
<isModifier value="false"/>
</element>
</differential>
</StructureDefinition>