---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Care Plan Activity Category"
codesystem: "care-plan-activity-category"
---
# Care Plan Activity Category

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/care-plan-activity-category
- **Version**: 1.0.0
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: CarePlanActivityCategory
- **Title**: Care Plan Activity Category
- **Description**: High-level categorization of the type of activity in a care plan.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| diet | Diet | Plan for the patient to consume food of a specified nature |
| drug | Drug | Plan for the patient to consume/receive a drug, vaccine or other product |
| encounter | Encounter | Plan to meet or communicate with the patient (in-patient, out-patient, phone call, etc.) |
| observation | Observation | Plan to capture information about a patient (vitals, labs, diagnostic images, etc.) |
| procedure | Procedure | Plan to modify the patient in some way (surgery, physiotherapy, education, counseling, etc.) |
| supply | Supply | Plan to provide something to the patient (medication, medical supply, etc.) |
| other | Other | Some other form of action |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="care-plan-activity-category"/>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/care-plan-activity-category"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.132"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.63"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="1.0.0"/>
  <name value="CarePlanActivityCategory"/>
  <title value="Care Plan Activity Category"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2015-08-31T09:04:04+10:00"/>
  <description value="High-level categorization of the type of activity in a care plan."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/care-plan-activity-category"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="diet"/>
    <display value="Diet"/>
    <definition value="Plan for the patient to consume food of a specified nature"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="drug"/>
    <display value="Drug"/>
    <definition value="Plan for the patient to consume/receive a drug, vaccine or other product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="encounter"/>
    <display value="Encounter"/>
    <definition value="Plan to meet or communicate with the patient (in-patient, out-patient, phone call, etc.)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="observation"/>
    <display value="Observation"/>
    <definition value="Plan to capture information about a patient (vitals, labs, diagnostic images, etc.)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="procedure"/>
    <display value="Procedure"/>
    <definition value="Plan to modify the patient in some way (surgery, physiotherapy, education, counseling, etc.)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="supply"/>
    <display value="Supply"/>
    <definition value="Plan to provide something to the patient (medication, medical supply, etc.)"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="other"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="Some other form of action"/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```