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| Official URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance | Version: 11.0.1 | |||
| Active as of 2026-10-23 | Computable Name: ehealth-actionguidance | |||
An Action guidance expresses a set of instructions to a clinician/employee in a given situation.
The action guidance can be associated with one or more Questionnaires, which is why it is based on questions and answers. That is, which questions and answers in an associated Questionnaire should give rise to the presentation of instructions to the clinician/employee.
The profile is based on the native FHIR Basic resource and adds the following extensions:
ehealth-content The element used for the actual modeling of action guidance.ehealth-basic-title Name for this action guidance.ehealth-description A description of this action guidance.ehealth-purpose Why this action definition is defined.ehealth-version The business version of the action guidance.ehealth-useContext The context that the content is intended to support.ehealth-recommendation The recommendation level of this action guidance.ehealth-intendedAudience Can be set to one or more Organizations to indicate for which Organization(s) this action guidance is intended to be used by. This is meant for filtering and is not enforced or in any way restricting which Organization has access.ehealth-actionguidance-type Type of action guidance.ehealth-actionguidance-for A reference to a resource for which this action guidance applies.ehealth-modifier-roleehealth-statusThe element ehealth-modifier-role specifies one or more Organization and each Organization's role in maintaining
the Action guidance:
ehealth-modifier-role.reference references the Organization.ehealth-modifier-role.role set to owner means that the referenced Organization can update the resource
and alter the entities referenced by ehealth-modifier-role, for instance, by adding more co-authors.ehealth-modifier-role.role set to co-author means that the referenced Organization can update the resource
but not alter the element ehealth-modifier-role.During an update operation, when the ActionGuidance has a status of active or retired, only the following elements are permitted to be modified: ehealth-recommendation, ehealth-intendedAudience, ehealth-useContext, ehealth-modifier-role and ehealth-status.
The status field,ehealth-status, will express the lifecycle of the resource. Changes follow this pattern.
draft.draft can change to either active or retired.active can only change to retired.The useContext element specifies the context in which the ActionGuidance is applicable. It consists of:
useContext.code – Defines the context type.useContext.valueCodeableConcept – Defines the context value (e.g., a specific condition when useContext.code is focus).When using useContext.code from http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/vs/ehealth-usage-context-type, the useContext.valueCodeableConcept is validated against the ValueSet outlined for the chosen useContext.code as described in the description sections on ehealth-usage-context-type ValueSet page.
Note: The
useContextelement can be updated at any time, regardless of the ActionGuidance status.
Example: An ActionGuidance applicable only to a specific intended solution (codes are fictional):
{
"useContext": [
{
"code": {
"system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/usage-context-type",
"code": "program"
},
"valueCodeableConcept": {
"system": "http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/cs/ehealth-program",
"code": "some-intended-solution",
"display": "Some Intended Solution"
}
}
]
}
Usages:
You can also check for usages in the FHIR IG Statistics
Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and their representations.
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression |
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.language | Base | preferred | Common Languages | 📍4.0.1 | FHIR Std. |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression |
Summary
Mandatory: 4 elements
Extensions
This structure refers to these extensions:
Key Elements View
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter:  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
  Basic |
0..* | Basic | Resource for non-supported content | |
  implicitRules |
0..1 | uri | A set of rules under which this content was created | |
  Slices for extension |
4..* | Extension | Extension Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url Slicing Note: The rules on this element (including its children) apply to all the slices, but are not repeated in them | |
   extension:recommendation |
0..1 | CodeableConcept | Recommendation state of the plan definition URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-recommendation Binding: PlanDefinition Recommendation (required) | |
| extension:intendedAudience |
0..* | Reference(ehealth-organization) {r} | The intended audience of the resource URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-intendedAudience | |
| extension:modifierRole |
1..* | (Complex) | Modifier role URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-modifier-role | |
| extension:title |
0..1 | string | Name for this (human friendly) URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-basic-title | |
| extension:version |
0..1 | string | The current version URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-version | |
| extension:description |
0..1 | markdown | Natural language description URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-description | |
| extension:purpose |
0..1 | markdown | Why this is defined URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-purpose | |
| extension:useContext |
0..* | UsageContext | The context that the content is intended to support URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-useContext | |
| extension:status |
1..1 | Coding | The current status URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-status Binding: PublicationStatus (required) | |
| extension:content |
1..1 | Reference() | The content URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-content | |
| extension:type |
1..1 | Coding | The action guidance type URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-type Binding: Action guidance types (required) | |
 extension:forType |
0..* | (Complex) | Action guidance for URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-for | |
 modifierExtension |
0..* | Extension | Extensions that cannot be ignored | |
  code |
1..1 | CodeableConcept | Kind of Resource Binding: Basic resource type (required) | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression |
Differential View
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic |
0..* | Basic | Resource for non-supported content | |
| Slices for extension |
4..* | Extension | Extension Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url Slicing Note: The rules on this element (including its children) apply to all the slices, but are not repeated in them | |
| extension:recommendation |
0..1 | CodeableConcept | Recommendation state of the plan definition URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-recommendation Binding: PlanDefinition Recommendation (required) | |
| extension:intendedAudience |
0..* | Reference(ehealth-organization) {r} | The intended audience of the resource URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-intendedAudience | |
| extension:modifierRole |
1..* | (Complex) | Modifier role URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-modifier-role | |
| extension:title |
0..1 | string | Name for this (human friendly) URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-basic-title | |
| extension:version |
0..1 | string | The current version URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-version | |
| extension:description |
0..1 | markdown | Natural language description URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-description | |
| extension:purpose |
0..1 | markdown | Why this is defined URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-purpose | |
| extension:useContext |
0..* | UsageContext | The context that the content is intended to support URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-useContext | |
| extension:status |
1..1 | Coding | The current status URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-status Binding: PublicationStatus (required) | |
| extension:content |
1..1 | Reference() | The content URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-content | |
| extension:type |
1..1 | Coding | The action guidance type URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-type Binding: Action guidance types (required) | |
| extension:forType |
0..* | (Complex) | Action guidance for URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-for | |
 code |
1..1 | CodeableConcept | Kind of Resource Binding: Basic resource type (required) | |
| Documentation for this format | ||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
Snapshot ViewView
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints Filter: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic |
0..* | Basic | Resource for non-supported content | |||||
| id |
0..1 | id | Logical id of this artifact | |||||
| meta |
0..1 | Meta | Metadata about the resource | |||||
| implicitRules |
0..1 | uri | A set of rules under which this content was created | |||||
| language |
0..1 | code | Language of the resource content Binding: CommonLanguages (preferred): A human language.
| |||||
| text |
0..1 | Narrative | Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation This profile does not constrain the narrative in regard to content, language, or traceability to data elements | |||||
| contained |
0..* | Resource | Contained, inline Resources | |||||
| Slices for extension |
4..* | Extension | Extension Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url Slicing Note: The rules on this element (including its children) apply to all the slices, but are not repeated in them | |||||
| extension:recommendation |
0..1 | CodeableConcept | Recommendation state of the plan definition URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-recommendation Binding: PlanDefinition Recommendation (required) | |||||
| extension:intendedAudience |
0..* | Reference(ehealth-organization) {r} | The intended audience of the resource URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-intendedAudience | |||||
| extension:modifierRole |
1..* | (Complex) | Modifier role URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-modifier-role | |||||
| extension:title |
0..1 | string | Name for this (human friendly) URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-basic-title | |||||
| extension:version |
0..1 | string | The current version URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-version | |||||
| extension:description |
0..1 | markdown | Natural language description URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-description | |||||
| extension:purpose |
0..1 | markdown | Why this is defined URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-purpose | |||||
| extension:useContext |
0..* | UsageContext | The context that the content is intended to support URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-useContext | |||||
| extension:status |
1..1 | Coding | The current status URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-status Binding: PublicationStatus (required) | |||||
| extension:content |
1..1 | Reference() | The content URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-content | |||||
| extension:type |
1..1 | Coding | The action guidance type URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-type Binding: Action guidance types (required) | |||||
| extension:forType |
0..* | (Complex) | Action guidance for URL: http://ehealth.sundhed.dk/fhir/StructureDefinition/ehealth-actionguidance-for | |||||
| modifierExtension |
0..* | Extension | Extensions that cannot be ignored | |||||
| identifier |
0..* | Identifier | Business identifier | |||||
| code |
1..1 | CodeableConcept | Kind of Resource Binding: Basic resource type (required) | |||||
 subject |
0..1 | Reference(Resource) | Identifies the focus of this resource | |||||
| created |
0..1 | date | When created | |||||
| author |
0..1 | Reference(Practitioner | PractitionerRole | Patient | RelatedPerson | Organization) | Who created | |||||
| Documentation for this format | ||||||||
| Path | Status | Usage | ValueSet | Version | Source |
| Basic.language | Base | preferred | Common Languages | 📍4.0.1 | FHIR Std. |
| Basic.code | Base | required | Basic resource type | 📦11.0.1 | This IG |
| Id | Grade | Path(s) | Description | Expression |
Summary
Mandatory: 4 elements
Extensions
This structure refers to these extensions:
Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel, Schematron
