---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Issue Severity"
codesystem: "issue-severity"
---
# Issue Severity

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/issue-severity
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: IssueSeverity
- **Title**: Issue Severity
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: How the issue affects the success of the action.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| fatal | Fatal | The issue caused the action to fail and no further checking could be performed. |
| error | Error | The issue is sufficiently important to cause the action to fail. |
| warning | Warning | The issue is not important enough to cause the action to fail but may cause it to be performed suboptimally or in a way that is not as desired. |
| information | Information | The issue has no relation to the degree of success of the action. |
| success | Operation Successful | The operation completed successfully. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="issue-severity"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="fhir"/>
  </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="5"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/issue-severity"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.409"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.398"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.223"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="IssueSeverity"/>
  <title value="Issue Severity"/>
  <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="How the issue affects the success of the action."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/issue-severity"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="fatal"/>
    <display value="Fatal"/>
    <definition value="The issue caused the action to fail and no further checking could be performed."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="error"/>
    <display value="Error"/>
    <definition value="The issue is sufficiently important to cause the action to fail."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="warning"/>
    <display value="Warning"/>
    <definition value="The issue is not important enough to cause the action to fail but may cause it to be performed suboptimally or in a way that is not as desired."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="information"/>
    <display value="Information"/>
    <definition value="The issue has no relation to the degree of success of the action."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="success"/>
    <display value="Operation Successful"/>
    <definition value="The operation completed successfully."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```