description: 'The Preoperative Diagnosis Section records the surgical diagnoses assigned to the patient before the surgical procedure which are the reason for the surgery. The preoperative diagnosis is, in the surgeon''s opinion, the diagnosis that will be confirmed during surgery.\n\n#### Templates Used\nAlthough open templates may contain any valid CDA content, the following templates are specifically called out by this template:\n\n**Recommended Entries**: [PreoperativeDiagnosis](StructureDefinition-PreoperativeDiagnosis.html)' package_name: hl7.cda.us.ccda derivation: constraint name: PreoperativeDiagnosisSection type: http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Section elements: templateId: index: 0 slicing: rules: open discriminator: - {path: root, type: value} - {path: extension, type: value} min: 1 slices: section: match: {root: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.22.2.34, extension: '2015-08-01'} schema: _required: true index: 1 elements: root: pattern: {type: String, value: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.22.2.34} index: 2 extension: pattern: {type: String, value: '2015-08-01'} index: 3 required: [root, extension] extensions: {} code: short: Surgical operation note preoperative diagnosis Narrative index: 4 elements: code: pattern: {type: Code, value: 10219-4} index: 5 codeSystem: pattern: {type: String, value: 2.16.840.1.113883.6.1} index: 6 required: [codeSystem, code] title: {index: 7} text: {index: 8} entry: index: 9 slicing: rules: open discriminator: - {path: act, type: profile} min: null slices: preopDiagnosis: match: {} schema: index: 10 elements: act: {type: 'http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Act', index: 11} required: [act] package_version: 4.0.0 class: logical kind: logical url: http://hl7.org/cda/us/ccda/StructureDefinition/PreoperativeDiagnosisSection base: http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Section version: 4.0.0 required: [text, title, templateId, code]