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5.6 Resource Location - Content

Details and position information for a physical place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored, found, contained or accommodated.

5.6.2 Resource Content

This resource is referenced by CarePlan, Composition, Device, DeviceObservationReport, DiagnosticOrder, DiagnosticReport, Encounter, Immunization, List, MedicationDispense, Observation, Organization, Practitioner, Provenance and Supply

<Location xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> 
 <!-- from Resource: extension, modifierExtension, language, text, and contained -->
 <identifier><!-- 0..1 Identifier 
     Unique code or number identifying the location to its users --></identifier>
 <name value="[string]"/><!-- 0..1 Name of the location as used by humans -->
 <description value="[string]"/><!-- 0..1 Description of the Location, which helps in finding or referencing the place -->
 <type><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Indicates the type of function performed at the location --></type>
 <telecom><!-- 0..* Contact Contact details of the location --></telecom>
 <address><!-- 0..1 Address Physical location --></address>
 <physicalType><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Physical form of the location --></physicalType>
 <position>  <!-- 0..1 The absolute geographic location -->
  <longitude value="[decimal]"/><!-- 1..1 Longitude as expressed in KML -->
  <latitude value="[decimal]"/><!-- 1..1 Latitude as expressed in KML -->
  <altitude value="[decimal]"/><!-- 0..1 Altitude as expressed in KML -->
 </position>
 <managingOrganization><!-- 0..1 Resource(Organization) 
     The organization that is responsible for the provisioning and upkeep of the location --></managingOrganization>
 <status value="[code]"/><!-- 0..1 active | suspended | inactive -->
 <partOf><!-- 0..1 Resource(Location) 
     Another Location which this Location is physically part of --></partOf>
 <mode value="[code]"/><!-- 0..1 instance | kind -->
</Location>

Alternate definitions: Schema/Schematron, Resource Profile

5.6.2.1 Terminology Bindings

5.6.3 Notes

• Multiple Organizations or Practitioners may provide services at a Location. These references are not kept in Location, but can be found in the models for Organization and Practitioner instead.
• Locations may range from whole buildings to cabinets; it is possible to relate smaller Locations to their containing bigger Location using the Location.partOf element.
• Location.position is expressed using the same syntax, datum and reference system as used in Google Earth's KML files, see Google/OGS's KML.

5.6.3.1 Location Mode

The Location.mode element can be used to indicate whether a Location resource represents a specific (potentially identifiable) Location ('instance'), or a class of Locations ('kind'). Especially Resources capturing orders, resource scheduling, plans and definitions may refer to Locations in 'kind' mode. For these domains, it is often not necessary to refer to a specific Location, but rather to a class of Locations. An example of this is found in planning, where we need to allocate an "isolation room" for a patient, or need to dispatch "an ambulance" at a certain time. In these cases it is not important exactly which isolation room or ambulance is allocated, and it is sufficient to just indicate a 'kind' of Location.

Note that 'kind' should not be used to represent Locations where an actual instance of a Location was involved, but identifying information is missing. E.g. when a patient arrived 'by ambulance', but it is not known by which ambulance, this should be represented using a Location in 'instance' mode with a missing identifier, not a Location of 'kind' ambulance.

Some of Location's data elements are only relevant when mode is 'instance' and should not be used when mode is 'kind':

• Location.identifier
• Location.telecom
• Location.address
• Location.position
• Location.status
• Location.managingOrganization

5.6.4 Search Parameters

Search parameters for this resource. The standard parameters also apply. See Searching for more information about searching in REST, messaging, and services.