Record Severed Extension

Canonical	../StructureDefinition/nexus-record-severed
Status	draft (experimental) · 1.26.0
Base	Extension (constraint)
Context	Resource (element)
Source	FSH · JSON

Marks a record as SEVERED: retained and traceable, but removed from ordinary clinical view because it was found to be incorrect.

Overview

Severing is what a custodian does when incorrect information cannot simply be overwritten -- it must remain retrievable, because a correction has to be auditable, while ceasing to be presented as though it were part of the patient's clinical picture.

Distinct from deletion, and from an error status. A deleted record cannot be audited. A record marked entered-in-error is still returned by ordinary reads and is still rendered by clients that do not check status. Severing is an instruction about VISIBILITY, and it is carried separately for exactly that reason.