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Patient Care Work Group | Maturity Level: 1 | Trial Use | Compartments: Device, Patient, Practitioner |
Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the Flag resource.
Flag | |
Definition | Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient. |
Control | 1..1 |
Alternate Names | Barriers to Care; Alert; Warning |
Flag.identifier | |
Definition | Identifier assigned to the flag for external use (outside the FHIR environment). |
Note | This is a business identifer, not a resource identifier (see discussion) |
Control | 0..* |
Type | Identifier |
Summary | true |
Flag.status | |
Definition | Supports basic workflow. |
Control | 1..1 |
Terminology Binding | FlagStatus (Required) |
Type | code |
Is Modifier | true |
Summary | true |
Comments | This element is labeled as a modifier because the status contains codes that mark the resource as not currently valid. |
Flag.category | |
Definition | Allows an flag to be divided into different categories like clinical, administrative etc. Intended to be used as a means of filtering which flags are displayed to particular user or in a given context. |
Control | 0..* |
Terminology Binding | Flag Category (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
Comments | The value set will often need to be adjusted based on local business rules and usage context. |
Flag.code | |
Definition | The coded value or textual component of the flag to display to the user. |
Control | 1..1 |
Terminology Binding | Flag Code (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
Comments | If non coded, use CodeableConcept.text. This element should always be included in the narrative. |
Flag.subject | |
Definition | The patient, location, group , organization , or practitioner, etc. this is about record this flag is associated with. |
Control | 1..1 |
Type | Reference(Patient | Location | Group | Organization | Practitioner | PlanDefinition | Medication | Procedure) |
Summary | true |
Flag.period | |
Definition | The period of time from the activation of the flag to inactivation of the flag. If the flag is active, the end of the period should be unspecified. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Period |
Summary | true |
Flag.encounter | |
Definition | This alert is only relevant during the encounter. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Encounter) |
Summary | true |
Comments | If both Flag.encounter and Flag.period are valued, then Flag.period.start shall not be before Encounter.period.start and Flag.period.end shall not be after Encounter.period.end. |
Flag.author | |
Definition | The person, organization or device that created the flag. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Device | Organization | Patient | Practitioner) |
Summary | true |