---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Protocol Type"
codesystem: "protocol-type"
---
# Protocol Type

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/protocol-type
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Name**: ProtocolType
- **Title**: Protocol Type
- **Description**: ProtocolType

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| condition | Condition | The protocol describes the steps to manage a particular health condition including monitoring, treatment, mitigation and/or follow-up. |
| device | Device | The protocol describes the appropriate use of a particular device (medical device, software, etc.). |
| drug | Drug | The protocol describes the appropriate use of a particular medication including indications for use, dosages, treatment cycles, etc. |
| study | Study | The protocol describes the set of steps to occur for study subjects enrolled in an interventional study. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="protocol-type"/>
  <meta>
    
  </meta>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/protocol-type"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1833"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="ProtocolType"/>
  <title value="Protocol Type"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <description value="ProtocolType"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="condition"/>
    <display value="Condition"/>
    <definition value="The protocol describes the steps to manage a particular health condition including monitoring, treatment, mitigation and/or follow-up."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="device"/>
    <display value="Device"/>
    <definition value="The protocol describes the appropriate use of a particular device (medical device, software, etc.)."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="drug"/>
    <display value="Drug"/>
    <definition value="The protocol describes the appropriate use of a particular medication including indications for use, dosages, treatment cycles, etc."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="study"/>
    <display value="Study"/>
    <definition value="The protocol describes the set of steps to occur for study subjects enrolled in an interventional study."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```