Release 5 Ballot

This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v5.0.0-ballot: R5 Ballot - see ballot notes). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions . Page versions: R5 R4B R4

Example Bundle/bundle-references (JSON)

FHIR Infrastructure Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Not linked to any defined compartments

Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)

An example bundle that demonstrates various reference resolution paths

{
  "resourceType": "Bundle",
  "id": "bundle-references",
  "type": "collection",
  "entry": [
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Patient",
        "id": "23",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown ( id: 1234567)</p><hr/></div>"
        },
        "identifier": [
          {
            "system": "http://example.org/ids",
            "value": "1234567"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Patient",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Anonymous Patient</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/123",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "123",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"123\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;123&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/23</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "Patient/23"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/124",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "124",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"124\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;124&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/23"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/12",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "12",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"12\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;12&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "urn:uuid:04121321-4af5-424c-a0e1-ed3aab1c349d"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/14",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "14",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"14\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;14&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">http://example.org/fhir-2/Patient/1</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "http://example.org/fhir-2/Patient/1"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir-2/Observation/14",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "14",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"14\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;14&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/23</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "Patient/23"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/45",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Patient",
        "id": "45",
        "meta": {
          "versionId": "1"
        },
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Name 1</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
        },
        "name": [
          {
            "text": "Name 1"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Patient/45",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Patient",
        "id": "45",
        "meta": {
          "versionId": "2"
        },
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p style=\"border: 1px #661aff solid; background-color: #e6e6ff; padding: 10px;\"><b>Name 2</b> (no stated gender), DoB Unknown</p><hr/></div>"
        },
        "name": [
          {
            "text": "Name 2"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/47",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "47",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"47\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;47&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"broken-link.html\">Patient/45/_history/2</a></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "reference": "Patient/45/_history/2"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "fullUrl": "http://example.org/fhir/Observation/48",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Observation",
        "id": "48",
        "text": {
          "status": "generated",
          "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Observation</b><a name=\"48\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Observation &quot;48&quot; </p></div><p><b>status</b>: final</p><p><b>code</b>: Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://loinc.org/\">LOINC</a>#15074-8)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <span/></p></div>"
        },
        "status": "final",
        "code": {
          "coding": [
            {
              "system": "http://loinc.org",
              "code": "15074-8",
              "display": "Glucose [Moles/volume] in Blood"
            }
          ]
        },
        "subject": {
          "identifier": {
            "system": "http://example.org/ids",
            "value": "1234567"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.