Introduction
The headings below list the elements of the QuestionnaireResponse profile and describes how to populate and consume them for hierarchichal uncategorised data.
QuestionnaireResponse elements
id
Data type: Id |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
The logical identifier of the QuestionnaireResponse profile.
meta.profile
Data type: uri |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
The QuestionnaireResponse profile URL.
Fixed value https://fhir.nhs.uk/STU3/StructureDefinition/CareConnect-QuestionnaireResponse-1.
identifier
Data type: Identifier |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..* |
This MUST be populated with a globally unique and persistent identifier (that is, it doesn’t change between requests and therefore stored with the source data). This MUST be scoped by a provider specific namespace for the identifier.
There may be more than one identifier where data has been migrated across practices or provider systems and different provider specific identifiers have been assigned.
Where consuming systems are integrating data from this resource to their local system, they MUST also persist this identifier at the same time.
parent
Data type: Reference |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
Link to the ‘Observation’ that is the parent to this QuestionnaireResponse.
Every QuestionnaireResponse MUST have a parent Observation.
questionnaire
Data type: Reference |
Optionality: Required | Cardinality: 0..1 |
Reference to the set of questions or form being answered.
status
Data type: code |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
The status of the QuestionnaireResponse.
Fixed value of ‘completed’
subject
Data type: Reference(Patient) |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
Reference to patient this QuestionnaireResponse is about.
context
Data type: Reference(Encounter) |
Optionality: Required | Cardinality: 0..1 |
The Encounter within which the QuestionnaireResponse was authored.
authored
Data type: dateTime |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
When this QuestionnaireResponse was created on the system.
item.linkId
Data type: String |
Optionality: Mandatory | Cardinality: 1..1 |
Pointer to a specific item from a linked Questionnaire.
Where the QuestionnaireResponse does not link back to a Questionnaire this should be populated with the rubric of the ‘parent’ observation.
If the ‘parent’ observation does not have a text description which can be used, then populate with ‘No information available’.
item.text
Data type: String |
Optionality: Required | Cardinality: 0..1 |
A text description of the question this item is an answer to or name of the group.
item.answer
Data type: Reference |
Optionality: Required | Cardinality: 0..* |
Answer to the question or item contained in the group.
In the current build of GP Connect this will always be in the form of a reference to another resource.
