oracle.hsgbu.hdr.hl7.rim.types

Interface EIVL

All Superinterfaces:

ANY, Iterable<TS>, Serializable, SET<TS>

public interface EIVL
extends SET<TS>

Event-Related Periodic Interval of Time

Specifies a periodic interval of time where the recurrence is based on activities of daily living or other important events that are time-related but not fully determined by time.

For example, "one hour after breakfast" specifies the beginning of the interval at one hour after breakfast is finished. Breakfast is assumed to occur before lunch but is not determined to occur at any specific time.

An event-related periodic interval of time is a set of time, that is, one can test whether a particular time or time interval is an element of the set. Whether an event-related periodic interval of time contains a given interval of time is decided using a relation event time referred to as EVENT( event , time ). The property occurrenceAt( t ) is the occurrence interval that would exist if the event occurred at time t .

Thus, an event related interval of time contains a point in time t if there is an event time e with an occurrence interval v such that v contains t .

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
BL	contains(TS x) This operation on the HL7 Data Type is not supported in the current version of HDR.
CS	event() A code for a common (periodical) activity of daily living based on which the event related periodic interval is specified.
ST	literal() This operation on the HL7 Data Type is not supported in the current version of HDR.
IVL<PQ>	offset() An interval of elapsed time (duration, not absolute point in time) that marks the offsets for the beginning, width and end of the event-related periodic interval measured from the time each such event actually occurred.

Methods inherited from interface oracle.hsgbu.hdr.hl7.rim.types.SET

cardinality, contains, except, except, hull, intersection, isEmpty, notEmpty, toSet, union, union

Methods inherited from interface oracle.hsgbu.hdr.hl7.rim.types.ANY

dataType, equal, isNull, nonNull, notApplicable, nullFlavor, other, unknown

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable

forEach, iterator, spliterator

Method Detail

event

CS event()

A code for a common (periodical) activity of daily living based on which the event related periodic interval is specified.

Returns:

Code of an event

offset

IVL<PQ> offset()

An interval of elapsed time (duration, not absolute point in time) that marks the offsets for the beginning, width and end of the event-related periodic interval measured from the time each such event actually occurred. For example: if the specification is "one hour before breakfast for 10 minutes" the offset's low boundary is (1 h and the offset's width is 10 min (consequently the offset's high boundary is (50 min.)

Returns:

offset time

contains

BL contains(TS x)

This operation on the HL7 Data Type is not supported in the current version of HDR.

Specified by:

contains in interface SET<TS>

Returns:

true if given element exists in Set

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException

literal

ST literal()

Description copied from interface: SET

This operation on the HL7 Data Type is not supported in the current version of HDR. When the element type T has a literal form, the set of T elements has a literal form, wherein the elements of the set are enumerated within curly braces and separated by semicolon characters.

Specified by:

literal in interface SET<TS>

Returns:

will not return anything as this method is not supported