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Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the Slot resource.
| Slot | |
| Definition | A slot of time on a schedule that may be available for booking appointments. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Slot.identifier | |
| Definition | External Ids for this item. |
| Note | This is a business identifer, not a resource identifier (see discussion) |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | Identifier |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.type | |
| Definition | The type of appointments that can be booked into this slot (ideally this would be an identifiable service - which is at a location, rather than the location itself). If provided then this overrides the value provided on the availability resource. |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Binding | DocumentC80PracticeSetting: Preferred: See http://hl7.org/fhir/vs/c80-practice-codes (Additional details about where the content was created (e.g. clinical specialty)) |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Slot.schedule | |
| Definition | The schedule resource that this slot defines an interval of status information. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | Reference(Schedule) |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.freeBusyType | |
| Definition | BUSY | FREE | BUSY-UNAVAILABLE | BUSY-TENTATIVE. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Binding | SlotStatus: Required: http://hl7.org/fhir/slotstatus (The free/busy status of a slot) |
| Type | code |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.start | |
| Definition | Date/Time that the slot is to begin. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | instant |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.end | |
| Definition | Date/Time that the slot is to conclude. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | instant |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.overbooked | |
| Definition | This slot has already been overbooked, appointments are unlikely to be accepted for this time. |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | boolean |
| Meaning if Missing | If overbooked is missing, systems may assume that there are still appointments available |
| Slot.comment | |
| Definition | Comments on the slot to describe any extended information. Such as custom constraints on the slot. |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | string |