Release 4B
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| Patient Administration Work Group | Maturity Level: 3 | Trial Use | Security Category: Business | Compartments: Not linked to any defined compartments |
Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the Slot resource.
| Slot | |
| Element Id | Slot |
| Definition | A slot of time on a schedule that may be available for booking appointments. |
| Cardinality | 0..* |
| Type | DomainResource |
| Summary | false |
| Slot.identifier | |
| Element Id | Slot.identifier |
| Definition | External Ids for this item. |
| Note | This is a business identifier, not a resource identifier (see discussion) |
| Cardinality | 0..* |
| Type | Identifier |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.serviceCategory | |
| Element Id | Slot.serviceCategory |
| Definition | A broad categorization of the service that is to be performed during this appointment. |
| Cardinality | 0..* |
| Terminology Binding | ServiceCategory (Example) |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.serviceType | |
| Element Id | Slot.serviceType |
| 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. |
| Cardinality | 0..* |
| Terminology Binding | ServiceType (Example) |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.specialty | |
| Element Id | Slot.specialty |
| Definition | The specialty of a practitioner that would be required to perform the service requested in this appointment. |
| Cardinality | 0..* |
| Terminology Binding | Practice Setting Code Value Set (Preferred) |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.appointmentType | |
| Element Id | Slot.appointmentType |
| Definition | The style of appointment or patient that may be booked in the slot (not service type). |
| Cardinality | 0..1 |
| Terminology Binding | hl7VS-appointmentReasonCodes (Preferred) |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.schedule | |
| Element Id | Slot.schedule |
| Definition | The schedule resource that this slot defines an interval of status information. |
| Cardinality | 1..1 |
| Type | Reference(Schedule) |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.status | |
| Element Id | Slot.status |
| Definition | busy | free | busy-unavailable | busy-tentative | entered-in-error. |
| Cardinality | 1..1 |
| Terminology Binding | SlotStatus (Required) |
| Type | code |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.start | |
| Element Id | Slot.start |
| Definition | Date/Time that the slot is to begin. |
| Cardinality | 1..1 |
| Type | instant |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.end | |
| Element Id | Slot.end |
| Definition | Date/Time that the slot is to conclude. |
| Cardinality | 1..1 |
| Type | instant |
| Summary | true |
| Slot.overbooked | |
| Element Id | Slot.overbooked |
| Definition | This slot has already been overbooked, appointments are unlikely to be accepted for this time. |
| Cardinality | 0..1 |
| Type | boolean |
| Meaning if Missing | If overbooked is missing, systems may assume that there are still appointments available |
| Summary | false |
| Slot.comment | |
| Element Id | Slot.comment |
| Definition | Comments on the slot to describe any extended information. Such as custom constraints on the slot. |
| Cardinality | 0..1 |
| Type | string |
| Summary | false |
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