AU Base Implementation Guide
6.0.0-preview - Preview Australia flag

This page is part of the Australian Base IG (v6.0.0-preview: QA Preview) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This version is a pre-release. The current official version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

: Communication Request Reason - XML Representation

Page standards status: Deprecated Maturity Level: 1

Raw xml | Download


<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="communicationrequest-reason"/>
  <meta>
    <profile
             value="https://healthterminologies.gov.au/fhir/StructureDefinition/complete-code-system-4"/>
  </meta>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem communicationrequest-reason</b></p><a name="communicationrequest-reason"> </a><a name="hccommunicationrequest-reason"> </a><div style="display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px"/><p style="margin-bottom: 0px">Profile: <code>https://healthterminologies.gov.au/fhir/StructureDefinition/complete-code-system-4</code></p></div><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://terminology.hl7.org.au/CodeSystem/communicationrequest-reason</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">urgent<a name="communicationrequest-reason-urgent"> </a></td><td>Urgent Results</td><td>A request for results to be communicated urgently to the nominated recipient.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">patient<a name="communicationrequest-reason-patient"> </a></td><td>Patient Request</td><td>A patient's request about receiving communication from a service provider.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">copyto<a name="communicationrequest-reason-copyto"> </a></td><td>Copy To</td><td>A request for results to be copied to an additional recipient.</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <extension
             url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="1"/>
  </extension>
  <extension
             url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="deprecated">
      <extension
                 url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status-reason">
        <valueMarkdown
                       value="This code system is deprecated in AU Base as work undertaken in the [AU eRequesting](https://build.fhir.org/ig/hl7au/au-fhir-erequesting) project does no longer require these concepts for differentiating communication request reasons."/>
      </extension>
    </valueCode>
  </extension>
  <url
       value="http://terminology.hl7.org.au/CodeSystem/communicationrequest-reason"/>
  <version value="6.0.0-preview"/>
  <name value="CommunicationRequestReason"/>
  <title value="Communication Request Reason"/>
  <status value="retired"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2025-11-26T07:22:59+00:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 Australia"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="HL7 Australia FHIR Working Group"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://confluence.hl7.org/display/HAFWG"/>
      <use value="work"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="The Communication Request Reason code system defines concepts that represent the reason codes for a communication request."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="AU"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <copyright
             value="HL7 Australia© 2018+; Licensed Under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet
            value="http://terminology.hl7.org.au/ValueSet/communicationrequest-reason"/>
  <compositional value="false"/>
  <versionNeeded value="false"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <count value="3"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="urgent"/>
    <display value="Urgent Results"/>
    <definition
                value="A request for results to be communicated urgently to the nominated recipient."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="patient"/>
    <display value="Patient Request"/>
    <definition
                value="A patient's request about receiving communication from a service provider."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="copyto"/>
    <display value="Copy To"/>
    <definition
                value="A request for results to be copied to an additional recipient."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>