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Compartment Patient

DescriptionThe set of resources associated with a particular patient
IdentityThere is an instance of the patient compartment for each patient resource, and the identity of the compartment is the same as the patient. When a patient is linked to another patient, all the records associated with the linked patient are in the compartment associated with the target of the link.
MembershipThe patient compartment includes any resources where the subject of the resource is the patient, and some other resources that are directly linked to resources in the patient compartment

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

ResourceInclusion Criteria
AdverseReactionsubject
Alertsubject
AllergyIntolerancesubject
CarePlansubject
Compositionsubject
Conditionsubject
DeviceObservationReportsubject
DiagnosticOrdersubject
DiagnosticReportsubject
DocumentManifestsubject
DocumentReferencesubject
Encountersubject
FamilyHistorysubject
ImagingStudysubject
Immunizationsubject
ImmunizationRecommendationsubject
Listsubject
Mediasubject
MedicationAdministrationpatient
MedicationDispensepatient
MedicationPrescriptionpatient
MedicationStatementpatient
Observationsubject
Ordersubject
OrderResponserequest.subject
Otherpatient
Proceduresubject
Provenancetarget.subject or target.patient
Questionnairesubject
RelatedPersonpatient
SecurityEventreference.subject or reference.patient
Specimensubject
Supplypatient

A resource is in this compartment if the nominated search parameter (or chain) refers to the patient resource that defines the compartment.

The following resources are never in this compartment:

See information about compartments.