A reply to an appointment request for a patient and/or practitioner(s), such as a confirmation or rejection.

This records identifiers associated with this appointment response concern that are defined by business processed and/ or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the resource itself is not appropriate.

Parent appointment that this response is replying to.

This may be either the same as the appointment request to confirm the details of the appointment, or alternately a new time to request a re-negotiation of the start time.

This may be either the same as the appointment request to confirm the details of the appointment, or alternately a new time to request a re-negotiation of the end time.

Role of participant in the appointment.

The role of the participant can be used to declare what the actor will be doing in the scope of the referenced appointment.

If the actor is not specified, then it is expected that the actor will be filled in at a later stage of planning.

This value MUST be the same as specified on the referenced Appointment so that they can be matched, and subsequently updated.

A Person, Location/HealthcareService or Device that is participating in the appointment.

Participation status of the Participant. When the status is declined or tentative if the start/end times are different to the appointment, then these times should be interpreted as a requested time change. When the status is accepted, the times can either be the time of the appointment (as a confirmation of the time) or can be empty.

This comment is particularly important when the responder is declining, tentative or requesting another time to indicate the reasons why.