---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Participant Required"
codesystem: "participantrequired"
---
# Participant Required

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/participantrequired
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: ParticipantRequired
- **Title**: Participant Required
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Is the Participant required to attend the appointment.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| required | Required | The participant is required to attend the appointment. |
| optional | Optional | The participant may optionally attend the appointment. |
| information-only | Information Only | The participant is excluded from the appointment, and might not be informed of the appointment taking place. (Appointment is about them, not for them - such as 2 doctors discussing results about a patient's test). |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="participantrequired"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="pa"/>
  </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="3"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/participantrequired"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.489"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.482"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.286"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="ParticipantRequired"/>
  <title value="Participant Required"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <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="Is the Participant required to attend the appointment."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/participantrequired"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="required"/>
    <display value="Required"/>
    <definition value="The participant is required to attend the appointment."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="optional"/>
    <display value="Optional"/>
    <definition value="The participant may optionally attend the appointment."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="information-only"/>
    <display value="Information Only"/>
    <definition value="The participant is excluded from the appointment, and might not be informed of the appointment taking place. (Appointment is about them, not for them - such as 2 doctors discussing results about a patient's test)."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```