---
type: "codesystem"
title: "ResearchStudy Primary Purpose Type Code System"
codesystem: "research-study-prim-purp-type"
---
# ResearchStudy Primary Purpose Type Code System

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/research-study-prim-purp-type
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: ResearchStudyPrimaryPurposeType
- **Title**: ResearchStudy Primary Purpose Type Code System
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Codes for the main intent of a research study.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| treatment | Treatment | One or more interventions are being evaluated for treating a disease, syndrome, or condition. |
| prevention | Prevention | One or more interventions are being assessed for preventing the development of a specific disease or health condition. |
| diagnostic | Diagnostic | One or more interventions are being evaluated for identifying a disease or health condition. |
| supportive-care | Supportive Care | One or more interventions are evaluated for maximizing comfort, minimizing side effects, or mitigating against a decline in the participant's health or function. |
| screening | Screening | One or more interventions are assessed or examined for identifying a condition, or risk factors for a condition, in people who are not yet known to have the condition or risk factor. |
| health-services-research | Health Services Research | One or more interventions for evaluating the delivery, processes, management, organization, or financing of healthcare. |
| basic-science | Basic Science | One or more interventions for examining the basic mechanism of action (for example, physiology or biomechanics of an intervention). |
| device-feasibility | Device Feasibility | An intervention of a device product is being evaluated to determine the feasibility of the product or to test a prototype device and not health outcomes. Such studies are conducted to confirm the design and operating specifications of a device before beginning a full clinical trial. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CodeSystem	xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
	<id value="research-study-prim-purp-type"/>
	<meta>
		<lastUpdated value="2022-05-15T16:55:11.085+11:00"/>
		
	</meta>
	<extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
		<valueCode value="brr"/>
	</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="0"/>
	</extension>
	<url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/research-study-prim-purp-type"/>
	<version value="6.0.0"/>
	<name value="ResearchStudyPrimaryPurposeType"/>
	<title value="ResearchStudy Primary Purpose Type Code System"/>
	<status value="draft"/>
	<experimental value="false"/>
	<date value="2022-05-15T16:55:11.085+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="Codes for the main intent of a research study."/>
	<caseSensitive value="true"/>
	<valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/research-study-prim-purp-type"/>
	<content value="complete"/>
	<concept>
		<code value="treatment"/>
		<display value="Treatment"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions are being evaluated for treating a disease, syndrome, or condition."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="prevention"/>
		<display value="Prevention"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions are being assessed for preventing the development of a specific disease or health condition."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="diagnostic"/>
		<display value="Diagnostic"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions are being evaluated for identifying a disease or health condition."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="supportive-care"/>
		<display value="Supportive Care"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions are evaluated for maximizing comfort, minimizing side effects, or mitigating against a decline in the participant's health or function."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="screening"/>
		<display value="Screening"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions are assessed or examined for identifying a condition, or risk factors for a condition, in people who are not yet known to have the condition or risk factor."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="health-services-research"/>
		<display value="Health Services Research"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions for evaluating the delivery, processes, management, organization, or financing of healthcare."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="basic-science"/>
		<display value="Basic Science"/>
		<definition value="One or more interventions for examining the basic mechanism of action (for example, physiology or biomechanics of an intervention)."/>
	</concept>
	<concept>
		<code value="device-feasibility"/>
		<display value="Device Feasibility"/>
		<definition value="An intervention of a device product is being evaluated to determine the feasibility of the product or to test a prototype device and not health outcomes. Such studies are conducted to confirm the design and operating specifications of a device before beginning a full clinical trial."/>
	</concept>
</CodeSystem>
```