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4.4.1.559 4.4.1.608 Value Set ValueSet http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/sort-direction

  Maturity Level : 5
Responsible Owner: FHIR Infrastructure icon Work Group Trial Use Normative Use Context : Any Country: World
This is a value set defined by the FHIR project. Summary Committee:
Official URL : Title: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/sort-direction SortDirection Definition: The possible sort directions, ascending or descending. Version : 6.0.0-ballot3
active as of 2025-11-20 FHIR Infrastructure Computable Name : SortDirection Work Group
OID: Flags : Immutable 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.979 (for OID based terminology systems) Source Resource XML / JSON : 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.979

This value set is used in the following places:

4.4.1.559.1 4.4.1.608.1 Definition

The possible sort directions, ascending or descending.

4.4.1.608.2 Content Logical Definition

This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

Generated Narrative: ValueSet sort-direction

Last updated: 2025-11-20T23:56:49.898Z

 

4.4.1.559.2 4.4.1.608.3 Expansion

This expansion generated 01 20 Nov 2019 2025

ValueSet This value set contains 2 concepts

Expansion performed internally based on http://hl7.org/fhir/sort-direction version 4.0.1 All codes from system http://hl7.org/fhir/sort-direction codesystem SortDirection v6.0.0-ballot3 (CodeSystem)

This value set contains 2 concepts

System Code Display Definition
http://hl7.org/fhir/sort-direction    ascending Ascending Sort by the value ascending, so that lower values appear first.
http://hl7.org/fhir/sort-direction    descending Descending Sort by the value descending, so that lower values appear last.

 

See the full registry of value sets defined as part of FHIR.

Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:

Lvl A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. For value sets, levels are mostly used to organize codes for user convenience, but may follow code system hierarchy - see Code System for further information
Source The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
Code The code (used as the code in the resource instance). If the code is in italics, this indicates that the code is not selectable ('Abstract')
Display The display (used in the display element of a Coding ). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application
Definition An explanation of the meaning of the concept
Comments Additional notes about how to use the code