Release 4B

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Compartment Patient

FHIR Infrastructure Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status:Trial Use
Formal URIhttp://hl7.org/fhir/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
Formal DefinitionCompartmentDefinitionresource: XML or JSON

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

ResourceInclusion Criteria
Accountsubject
AdverseEventsubject
AllergyIntolerancepatient or recorder or asserter
Appointmentactor
AppointmentResponseactor
AuditEventpatient
Basicpatient or author
BodyStructurepatient
CarePlanpatient or performer
CareTeampatient or participant
ChargeItemsubject
Claimpatient or payee
ClaimResponsepatient
ClinicalImpressionsubject
Communicationsubject or sender or recipient
CommunicationRequestsubject or sender or recipient or requester
Compositionsubject or author or attester
Conditionpatient or asserter
Consentpatient
Coveragepolicy-holder or subscriber or beneficiary orpayor
CoverageEligibilityRequestpatient
CoverageEligibilityResponsepatient
DetectedIssuepatient
DeviceRequestsubject or performer
DeviceUseStatementsubject
DiagnosticReportsubject
DocumentManifestsubject or author or recipient
DocumentReferencesubject or author
Encounterpatient
EnrollmentRequestsubject
EpisodeOfCarepatient
ExplanationOfBenefitpatient or payee
FamilyMemberHistorypatient
Flagpatient
Goalpatient
Groupmember
ImagingStudypatient
Immunizationpatient
ImmunizationEvaluationpatient
ImmunizationRecommendationpatient
Invoicesubject or patient or recipient
Listsubject or source
MeasureReportpatient
Mediasubject
MedicationAdministrationpatient or performer or subject
MedicationDispensesubject or patient or receiver
MedicationRequestsubject
MedicationStatementsubject
MolecularSequencepatient
NutritionOrderpatient
Observationsubject or performer
Patientlink
Personpatient
Procedurepatient or performer
Provenancepatient
QuestionnaireResponsesubject or author
RelatedPersonpatient
RequestGroupsubject or participant
ResearchSubjectindividual
RiskAssessmentsubject
Scheduleactor
ServiceRequestsubject or performer
Specimensubject
SupplyDeliverypatient
SupplyRequestsubject
VisionPrescriptionpatient

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.