CTS2-LE REST API: Resolve Value Set

This REST call fetches the full content of a defined value set or codesystem. In case a value set is requested, this call responds with the expanded content of the value set, which means that all code references are resolved from their underlying codesystems.

This rest call is a variant of Resolve Value Set (multi-modal) with the minimal required parameter set _query=expandResource, identifier.

Example

The main purpose of the method is to resolve value sets in order to allow for

1. display value set items to the user
2. validation of code system/value set references of an electronic health record

In order to reference the value set properly, one has to use its identifier, e.g. http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/administrative-gender

This identifier has to be part of the http-call

http://<host>/WebCts2LE/rest/fhir/ValueSet?_query=expandResource&identifier=http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/administrative-gender

that will return the following value set expansion

<atom:feed xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"
   xmlns:at="http://purl.org/atompub/tombstones/1.0" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
   xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <atom:title>Value Set Expansion</atom:title>
   <atom:id>urn:uuid:dc9f2f7e-6a1b-4389-9b88-7048787227c2</atom:id>
   <atom:updated>2015-04-05T13:46:55</atom:updated>
   <atom:entry>
      <atom:title>Value Set Resolution</atom:title>
      <atom:id>http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/administrative-gender</atom:id>
      <atom:updated>2015-04-05T13:46:55</atom:updated>
      <atom:content>
         <ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
            <name value="..." />
            <description value="..." />
            <status value="draft" />
            <expansion>
               <timestamp />
               <contains xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
                  <system value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.1" />
                  <code value="F" />
                  <display value="Female" />
               </contains>
               <contains xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
                  <system value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.1" />
                  <code value="M" />
                  <display value="Male" />
               </contains>
               <contains xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
                  <system value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.1" />
                  <code value="UN" />
                  <display value="Undifferentiated" />
               </contains>
               <contains xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
                  <system value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.1008" />
                  <code value="UNK" />
                  <display value="unknown" />
               </contains>
            </expansion>
         </ValueSet>
      </atom:content>
   </atom:entry>
</atom:feed>

Appropriate XPATH expressions should select the code list. E.g., the XPATH expression

/atom:feed/atom:entry/atom:content/ValueSet/expansion/contains

retrieves all (code, code system)-pairs with their display name.