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Represents a defined collection of entities that may be discussed or acted upon collectively but which are not expected to act collectively and are not formally or legally recognized. I.e. A collection of entities that isn't an Organization.
5.8.1 Scope and Usage
5.8.1.1 Use Cases
The group resource is used in one of two ways:
To define a group of specific people, animals, devices, etc. that is being tracked, examined or otherwise referenced as part of healthcare-related activities
To define a set of *possible* people, animals, devices, etc. that are of interest for some intended future healthcare-related activities
Examples of the former could include group therapy or treatment sessions, exposed entities tracked as part of public health, etc. The latter might be used to define expected subjects for a clinical study.
Both use cases are handled by a single resource because the data elements captured tend to be similar.
5.8.2 Boundaries and Relationships
There are 2 resources that provide for constructing collections of other resources:
The List resource - enumerates a collection of resources that are in some list, and provides features for managing the list. The list resource references other resources
This Group resource - defines a group of specific people, animals, devices, etc. by enumerating them, or by describing qualities that group members have. The group resource refers to other resources, possibly implicitly
Kind of particular resource. E.g. cow, syringe, lake, etc.
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Group.characteristic.code
List of characteristics used to describe group members. E.g. gender, age, owner, location, etc.
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Group.characteristic.value[x]
Value of descriptive member characteristic. E.g. red, male, pneumonia, caucasian, etc.
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5.8.3.2 Constraints
Inv-1: Can only have members if group is "actual" (xpath: f:actual/@value='true' or not(exists(f:member)))
Inv-4: Can't have more members associated with the group than the value specified for "quantity" (xpath: not(f:quantity) or not(f:member) or not(f:quantity>count(f:member)))
Inv-3: On Group.member: Member resource types SHALL agree with group type (xpath on f:Group/f:member: lower-case(f:type/@value)=parent::f:Group/f:type/@value or (f:type/@value='Patient' and parent::f:Group/f:type/@value=('animal','person')))
5.8.4 Search Parameters
Search parameters for this resource. The standard parameters also apply. See Searching for more information about searching in REST, messaging, and services.
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1..1 Descriptive or actual § --> <code><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Kind of Group members § --></code> <name value="[string]"/><!-- 0..1 Label for Group § --> <quantity value="[integer]"/><!-- 0..1 Number of members § --> <characteristic> <!-- 0..* Trait of group members --> <code><!-- 1..1 CodeableConcept Kind of characteristic --></code> <value[x]><!-- 1..1 CodeableConcept|boolean|Quantity|Range Value held by characteristic --></value[x]> <exclude value="[boolean]"/><!-- 1..1 Group includes or excludes --> </characteristic> <member><!--
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