{
  "description": "Codes for documenting spoken language proficiency based on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale of abilities to communicate in a language.",
  "_filename": "CodeSystem-LanguageProficiencyCS.json",
  "package_name": "hl7.fhir.us.directory-query",
  "date": "2022-08-09T18:49:24+00:00",
  "publisher": "HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group",
  "jurisdiction": [ {
    "coding": [ {
      "code": "US",
      "system": "urn:iso:std:iso:3166"
    } ]
  } ],
  "content": "complete",
  "name": "LanguageProficiencyCS",
  "type": null,
  "experimental": null,
  "resourceType": "CodeSystem",
  "title": "Language Proficiency Code System",
  "package_version": "1.0.0-ballot",
  "status": "active",
  "id": "b65a3a40-3f6f-492a-89a1-c92f848cf707",
  "kind": null,
  "count": 6,
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/us/directory-query/CodeSystem/LanguageProficiencyCS",
  "concept": [ {
    "code": "00",
    "display": "No proficiency",
    "definition": "Unable to function in the spoken language."
  }, {
    "code": "10",
    "display": "Elementary proficiency",
    "definition": "Able to satisfy minimum courtesy requirements and maintain very simple face-to-face conversations on familiar topics. A native speaker must often use slowed speech, repetition, paraphrase, or a combination of these to be understood by this individual."
  }, {
    "code": "20",
    "display": "Limited working proficiency",
    "definition": "Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements."
  }, {
    "code": "30",
    "display": "General professional proficiency",
    "definition": "Able to speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations in practical, social and professional topics."
  }, {
    "code": "40",
    "display": "Advanced professional proficiency",
    "definition": "Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels normally pertinent to professional needs."
  }, {
    "code": "50",
    "display": "Functional native proficiency",
    "definition": "Speaking proficiency is functionally equivalent to that of a highly articulate well-educated native speaker and reflects the cultural standards of the country where the language is natively spoken."
  } ],
  "caseSensitive": true,
  "version": "1.0.0-ballot",
  "contact": [ {
    "name": "HL7 International - Patient Administration Work Group",
    "telecom": [ {
      "value": "http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pafm",
      "system": "url"
    }, {
      "value": "pafm@lists.hl7.org",
      "system": "email"
    } ]
  } ]
}