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Resource Group - Content 3.5

Status: Not an approved resource: examplar. Possible owners: Public Health & Emergency Response and Patient Administration Working Group

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.

The resource name as it appears in a RESTful URL is /group/

This resource is used in one of two ways:

  1. To define a group of specific people, animals, devices, etc. that is being tracked, examined or otherwise referenced as part of healthcare-related activities; and
  2. 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.

Resource Content 3.5.1

UML Image

<Group xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
 <identifier><!-- 0..1 Identifier Unique id --></identifier>
 <type><!-- 1..1 code Group Classification --></type>
 <actual><!-- 1..1 boolean Descriptive or actual --></actual>
 <code><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Kind of Group members --></code>
 <name><!-- 0..1 string Label for Group --></name>
 <quantity><!-- 0..1 integer Number of members --></quantity>
 <characteristic>  <!-- 0..* Trait of group members -->
  <type><!-- 1..1 CodeableConcept Kind of characteristic --></type>
  <value[x]><!-- 1..1 CodeableConcept|string|boolean Value held by characteristic --></value[x]>
  <exclude><!-- 0..1 boolean Group includes or excludes --></exclude>
 </characteristic>
 <member><!-- 0..* Resource(Person|Animal|Device|Medication|Food) Who is in group --></member>
 <extension><!-- 0..* Extension  See Extensions  --></extension>
 <text><!-- 1..1 Narrative Text summary of resource (for human interpretation) --></text>
</Group>

Alternate definitions: Schema/Schematron, RDF (to do), XML, XMI (to do), Resource Profile

Terminology Bindings

PathDetailsStrength
Group.type Types of resources that are part of group (see http://hl7.org/fhir/group-type for values)complete/required
Group.code Kind of particular resource (not bound to any particular codes)complete/unstated
Group.characteristic.type List of characteristics used to describe group members. E.g. gender, age, owner, location, etc. (not bound to any particular codes)complete/unstated
Group.characteristic.value[x] Value of descriptive member characteristic (not bound to any particular codes)complete/unstated

Constraints

Search Parameters 3.5.2

Search Parameters for RESTful searches. The standard parameters also apply. See Searching for more information.

$page : integerStarting offset of the first record to return in the search setsingle
$count : integerNumber of return records requested. The server is not bound to conformsingle
$id : tokenThe logical resource id associated with the resource (must be supported by all servers)single
type : qtokenThe type of resources the group containssingle
code : qtokenThe kind of resources containedunion
characteristic : qtokenA characteristic held by the member resourcesintersection
charvalue : stringThe value of a characteristic held by the member resources (matches corresponding 'characteristic' repetitionintersection

(See Searching).


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