StructureDefinition
FHIR conformance resource, the building block of profiling and Implementation Guides.
Definition
StructureDefinition is the conformance resource that defines a FHIR profile: it derives from a base (kind, type, baseDefinition) and carries two views, differential (only the added constraints) and snapshot (the fully computed model). Each ElementDefinition sets cardinalities, types, ValueSet bindings and invariants. Extensions are themselves StructureDefinitions.
Origin
Defined by HL7 FHIR (StructureDefinition resource, Conformance module), specification maintained by HL7 International — see hl7.org/fhir/structuredefinition.html.
Example in context
<StructureDefinition><url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-patient"/><type value="Patient"/><derivation value="constraint"/></StructureDefinition>
Related terms
- Must Support — flag set on a profile's ElementDefinitions.
- US Core IG — a collection of StructureDefinitions for the US realm.