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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 |
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 | Service category (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 | Service type (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 | v2 Appointment Reason Codes (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 |
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 |