The formal definitions for the elements in the animal resource. Also available as an XML file.
| Animal |
| Definition | An animal that has relevance to the care process -usually this is for animals that are patients. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Requirements | Need to be able to track animals - vetinary medicine is an active user of HL7 standards |
| Comments | Animals differ because you need to track species and strain, and also different kind of relationships - owners |
| RIM Mapping | NonPersonLivingSubject(classCode=ANM, determinerCode=INST) |
| Animal.id |
| Definition | Master Resource Id, always first in all resources |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | id |
| Must Understand | true |
| To Do | .id(scope=OBJ) |
| Animal.identifier |
| Definition | Identifier for the animal that is used to identify the person across multiple disparate systems and also for face to face identification of the person |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | HumanId |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | Animals are known by a variety of ids. Some institutions maintain several, and most collect identifiers for exchange with other organizations concerning the animal |
| RIM Mapping | .scopes[Role](classCode=IDENT) |
| Animal.name |
| Definition | A name associated with the animal. The use code maiden does not apply. |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | HumanName |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | Some animals have names, which are assigned by humans for human reasons, and follow human naming patterns |
| RIM Mapping | .name |
| Animal.dob |
| Definition | The birth date for the animal |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | dateTime |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | Age of the animal drives many clinical processes. |
| RIM Mapping | .dateOfBirth |
| To Do | RIM change to support human date (time only - but is this needed in this context?) |
| Animal.species |
| Definition | Species for the animal |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | CodeableConcept from AnimalSpecies |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | Need to know what kind of animal |
| RIM Mapping | .code |
| Animal.strain |
| Definition | Strain for the animal |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | CodeableConcept from AnimalStrain |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | May need to know the specific kind within the species |
| RIM Mapping | .strainText |
| To Do | Not sure why this is ED in the RIM. Should probably change to SC. |
| Animal.gender |
| Definition | Gender for the Animal |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | CodeableConcept from AnimalGender |
| Must Understand | true |
| Requirements | For managing the animal |
| Comments | Note that some animals have additional gender not encountered in humans? |
| RIM Mapping | .administrativeGenderCode |
| Animal.relatedEntity |
| Definition | Kin, owner, care giver etc |
| Control | 0..* |
| Animal.relatedEntity.identifier |
| Definition | Identifier for the entity |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | HumanId |
| Animal.relatedEntity.role |
| Definition | Type of relationship |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | CodeableConcept from AnimalRelationship |
| Animal.relatedEntity.name |
| Definition | Name of the related entity |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | HumanName |
| Animal.relatedEntity.address |
| Definition | An address (usually human, but may be kin) |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | Address |
| Animal.relatedEntity.contact |
| Definition | Contact details (usually for humans) |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | Contact |
| Animal.extension |
| Definition | See Extensions |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | Extension |
| RIM Mapping | [varies] |
| Animal.text |
| Definition | |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | Narrative |
| To Do | .text |
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