2nd DSTU Draft For Comment

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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

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

ResourceInclusion Criteria
Alertsubject
AllergyIntolerancesubject
Basicsubject
CarePlanpatient
CarePlan2patient
ClinicalAssessmentpatient
Communicationsubject
CommunicationRequestsubject
Compositionsubject
Conditionsubject
Contractsubject
Contraindicationpatient
DeviceUseRequestsubject
DeviceUseStatementsubject
DiagnosticOrdersubject
DiagnosticReportsubject
DocumentManifestsubject
DocumentReferencesubject
Encounterpatient
EnrollmentRequestsubject
EpisodeOfCarepatient
FamilyHistorypatient
Goalpatient
ImagingObjectSelectionpatient
ImagingStudypatient
Immunizationsubject
ImmunizationRecommendationsubject
InstitutionalClaimpatient
Listsubject
Mediasubject
MedicationAdministrationpatient
MedicationDispensepatient
MedicationPrescriptionpatient
MedicationStatementpatient
NutritionOrderpatient
Observationsubject
OralHealthClaimpatient
Ordersubject
OrderResponserequest.subject
Othersubject
PharmacyClaimpatient
Procedurepatient
ProcedureRequestsubject
ProfessionalClaimpatient
Provenancetarget.subject or target.patient
QuestionnaireAnswerssubject
ReferralRequestpatient
RelatedPersonpatient
RiskAssessmentsubject
SecurityEventreference.subject or reference.patient
Specimensubject
Supplypatient
SupportingDocumentationsubject
VisionClaimpatient
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.