---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Search Processing Mode Type"
codesystem: "search-processingmode"
---
# Search Processing Mode Type

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/search-processingmode
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: SearchProcessingModeType
- **Title**: Search Processing Mode Type
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: How a search parameter relates to the set of elements returned by evaluating its expression query.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| normal | Normal | The search parameter is derived directly from the selected nodes based on the type definitions. |
| phonetic | Phonetic | The search parameter is derived by a phonetic transform from the selected nodes. |
| other | Other | The interpretation of the xpath statement is unknown (and can't be automated). |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="search-processingmode"/>
  <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="3"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/search-processingmode"/>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="SearchProcessingModeType"/>
  <title value="Search Processing Mode Type"/>
  <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 a search parameter relates to the set of elements returned by evaluating its expression query."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/search-processingmode"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="normal"/>
    <display value="Normal"/>
    <definition value="The search parameter is derived directly from the selected nodes based on the type definitions."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="phonetic"/>
    <display value="Phonetic"/>
    <definition value="The search parameter is derived by a phonetic transform from the selected nodes."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="other"/>
    <display value="Other"/>
    <definition value="The interpretation of the xpath statement is unknown (and can't be automated)."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```