---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Definition Status"
codesystem: "definition-status"
---
# Definition Status

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/definition-status
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Name**: DefinitionStatus
- **Title**: Definition Status
- **Description**: DefinitionStatus

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| draft | Draft | The definition is in the design stage and is not yet considered to be "ready for use". |
| active | Active | The definition is considered ready for use. |
| withdrawn | Withdrawn | The definition should no longer be used. |
| unknown | Unknown | The authoring/source system does not know which of the status values currently applies for this resource.  Note: This concept is not to be used for "other" - one of the listed statuses is presumed to apply,  but the authoring/source system does not know which. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="definition-status"/>
  <meta>
    
  </meta>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/definition-status"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.99"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="DefinitionStatus"/>
  <title value="Definition Status"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <description value="DefinitionStatus"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="draft"/>
    <display value="Draft"/>
    <definition value="The definition is in the design stage and is not yet considered to be &quot;ready for use&quot;."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="active"/>
    <display value="Active"/>
    <definition value="The definition is considered ready for use."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="withdrawn"/>
    <display value="Withdrawn"/>
    <definition value="The definition should no longer be used."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unknown"/>
    <display value="Unknown"/>
    <definition value="The authoring/source system does not know which of the status values currently applies for this resource.  Note: This concept is not to be used for &quot;other&quot; - one of the listed statuses is presumed to apply,  but the authoring/source system does not know which."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```