description: This extension contains an explanation for the manual or alternate initiation of the public health report.\n\nIf there are multiple distinct reasons for manual or alternate initiation then each reason should be contained in a separate US Public Health Initiation Reason Extension. \n\nThe reason may be entered either as:\n* free text (string) \n* coded value (valueCodeableConcept) (not necessarily initiated by a provider of care but might be \"programmed-in\" by the EHR implementer for some purpose)
package_name: rs/hl7.fhir.us.ph
derivation: constraint
name: USPublicHealthInitiationReasonExtension
type: Extension
elements:
  url:
    pattern: {type: uri, value: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ph-library/StructureDefinition/us-ph-initiation-reason-extension'}
    type: uri
    index: 0
  value:
    mustSupport: true
    choices: [valueString, valueCodeableConcept]
    index: 2
  valueString: {type: string, mustSupport: true, choiceOf: value, index: 3}
  valueCodeableConcept: {type: CodeableConcept, mustSupport: true, choiceOf: value, index: 4}
package_version: library-1.0.0-ballot
class: extension
kind: complex-type
url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ph-library/StructureDefinition/us-ph-initiation-reason-extension
base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension
version: 1.0.0-ballot
required: [value, valueCodeableConcept, valueString]