---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Adverse Event Actuality"
codesystem: "adverse-event-actuality"
---
# Adverse Event Actuality

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/adverse-event-actuality
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: AdverseEventActuality
- **Title**: Adverse Event Actuality
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Overall nature of the adverse event, e.g. real or potential.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| actual | Adverse Event | The adverse event actually happened regardless of whether anyone was affected or harmed. |
| potential | Potential Adverse Event | A potential adverse event. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="adverse-event-actuality"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="pc"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="0"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/adverse-event-actuality"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.832"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="AdverseEventActuality"/>
  <title value="Adverse Event Actuality"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Overall nature of the adverse event, e.g. real or potential."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/adverse-event-actuality"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="actual"/>
    <display value="Adverse Event"/>
    <definition value="The adverse event actually happened regardless of whether anyone was affected or harmed."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="potential"/>
    <display value="Potential Adverse Event"/>
    <definition value="A potential adverse event."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```