---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Request Category"
codesystem: "request-category"
---
# Request Category

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/request-category
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: RequestCategory
- **Title**: Request Category
- **Description**: The kind of request.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| proposal | Proposal | The request is a proposal |
| plan | Plan | The request is a plan |
| orginal-order | Orginal Order | The request is an order. |
| encoded | Encoded | Represents an order created by a fulfiller as a representation of the specific action(s) they intend to take to fulfill the original order.  Typically these orders are more fully encoded than the original placer order. |
| reflex-order | Reflex Order | Represents a separate order created by a fulfiller as result of fulfilment of an order. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="request-category"/>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/request-category"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1830"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="RequestCategory"/>
  <title value="Request Category"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <description value="The kind of request."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/diagnostic-request-category"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="proposal"/>
    <display value="Proposal"/>
    <definition value="The request is a proposal"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="plan"/>
    <display value="Plan"/>
    <definition value="The request is a plan"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="orginal-order"/>
    <display value="Orginal Order"/>
    <definition value="The request is an order."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="encoded"/>
    <display value="Encoded"/>
    <definition value="Represents an order created by a fulfiller as a representation of the specific action(s) they intend to take to fulfill the original order.  Typically these orders are more fully encoded than the original placer order."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="reflex-order"/>
    <display value="Reflex Order"/>
    <definition value="Represents a separate order created by a fulfiller as result of fulfilment of an order."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```