#### Ambulance
Domain Message Specification

### EntityDeterminer

Code SystemId: | 2.16.840.1.113883.5.30
Version: | 1.0
Status: | active
Date: | 2011-12-21

#### Description

This vocabulary contains a set of codes to distinguish whether any given Entity object represents a type of object or specific one.

#### Values

Code | Description | Note
--- | --- | ---
INSTANCE | specific | An Entity which has a specific (instance) determiner represents one specific instance of a thing . Examples, St Elsewhere Trust Surgical Outpatient Clinic, a specific ECG machine (e.g. identified by serial number), Mr Sherlock Holmes.
KIND | described | An Entity which has a described (kind) determiner represents a general description of a kind of thing. It may refer to a whole or part of such a kind of thing, or to multiple occurrences of this kind of thing. Examples, a surgical clinic, an ECG machine, a person, a group of people.
QUANTIFIED_KIND | described quantified | An Entity which has a described quantified (quantified kind) determiner represents a general description of a specific amount of a thing. Examples, of syringe (quantity = 3,) stands for exactly three syringes.