Indicates whether the concept that is the target should be interpreted as itself, or whether it should be expanded to include its child concepts, or both when it is included in the source domain/valueset.
\nDeprecation Comment: Deprecated as per 11/2008 Harmonization cleanup; internal and obsolete HL7 usage, no longer used.
\nProperties
Code | URL | Description | Type |
Specializes | The child code is a more narrow version of the concept represented by the parent code. I.e. Every child concept is also a valid parent concept. Used to allow determination of subsumption. Must be transitive, irreflexive, antisymmetric. | Coding | |
Generalizes | Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship. | Coding | |
internalId | http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v3-internal-id | The internal identifier for the concept in the HL7 Access database repository. | code |
status | http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status | Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired. | code |
This code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ConceptGenerality defines the following codes: