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    <status value="generated"/><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem conformance-expectation</b></p><a name="conformance-expectation"> </a><a name="hcconformance-expectation"> </a><a name="conformance-expectation-en-US"> </a><div style="display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px">Last updated: 2020-04-09 21:10:28+0000</p></div><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/conformance-expectation</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">SHALL<a name="conformance-expectation-SHALL"> </a></td><td>Support for the specified capability is required to be considered conformant.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">SHOULD<a name="conformance-expectation-SHOULD"> </a></td><td>Support for the specified capability is strongly encouraged, and failure to support it should only occur after careful consideration.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">MAY<a name="conformance-expectation-MAY"> </a></td><td>Support for the specified capability is not necessary to be considered conformant, and the requirement should be considered strictly optional.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">SHOULD-NOT<a name="conformance-expectation-SHOULD-NOT"> </a></td><td>Support for the specified capability is strongly discouraged and should occur only after careful consideration.</td></tr></table></div>
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  <name value="ConformanceExpectation"/>
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  <date value="2020-04-09T21:10:28+00:00"/>
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  <description value="Indicates the degree of adherence to a specified behavior or capability expected for a system to be deemed conformant with a specification."/>
  <copyright value="This material derives from the HL7 Terminology (THO). THO is copyright ©1989+ Health Level Seven International and is made available under the CC0 designation. For more licensing information see: https://terminology.hl7.org/license.html"/>
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