FHIR Chat · Is resourcePatient mandatory for any FHIR search (GET)? · implementers

Stream: implementers

Topic: Is resourcePatient mandatory for any FHIR search (GET)?

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Maria Hu (Jun 30 2020 at 15:11):

Is resourcePatient mandatory of any FHIR search (GET)response for any FHIR server?
If optional, then we need to execute two API calls to be aligned with FHIR serve in order to search for patient's conditions:

1. GET Patient demographics
2. GET Patient's conditions
   Please advise, thanks.

Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 30 2020 at 15:19):

You could do a GET Condition?_include=Condition:subject to bring back both. If you want lots of stuff in a single call, you should also investigate the $everything operation. However, in general, yes you'll do distinct calls to get distinct resources.

Maria Hu (Jun 30 2020 at 16:26):

Lloyd McKenzie said:

You could do a GET Condition?_include=Condition:subject to bring back both. If you want lots of stuff in a single call, you should also investigate the $everything operation. However, in general, yes you'll do distinct calls to get distinct resources.

Thanks Lloyd.
Wonder if it is mandatory for FHIR Server that all GET Response always bundle patient resource with patient's demographics info together with all patient's condition(s)? Please advise, thanks.

Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 30 2020 at 16:28):

Definitely not

Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 30 2020 at 16:28):

If you ask for just conditions, you'll only get conditions

Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 30 2020 at 16:28):

There's no point passing back something the client might either already have or not need

Maria Hu (Jun 30 2020 at 16:29):

Maria Hu said:

Lloyd McKenzie said:

You could do a GET Condition?_include=Condition:subject to bring back both. If you want lots of stuff in a single call, you should also investigate the $everything operation. However, in general, yes you'll do distinct calls to get distinct resources.

Thanks Lloyd.
Wonder if it is mandatory for FHIR Server that all GET Response always bundle patient resource with patient's demographics info together with all patient's condition(s)? Please advise, thanks.
e.g GET request:
"subject": {
"reference": "http://localhost:6601/testServer/fhir/condition?subject=Patient/b05329ae-7b0d-4f1b-a609-f7b3e2c82678",
"type": "Patient"
},

Will the GET Response always return both resourcePatient & resourceCondition? Is it a vanilla FHIR server config? Pls advise, thanks.

Jean Duteau (Jun 30 2020 at 17:36):

Maria -with your GET request, you will only get back conditions that have the given Patient as a subject.

Jean Duteau (Jun 30 2020 at 17:36):

No Patient information will be returned.

Maria Hu (Jun 30 2020 at 17:42):

Jean Duteau said:

Maria -with your GET request, you will only get back conditions that have the given Patient as a subject.

Thanks Jean for the confirmation.

Mohammad Wahid (Dec 17 2020 at 19:24):

For the Laboratory test result profile:

http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition-us-core-observation-lab.html

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When the cardinality is 0 it means an optional field?

For a non-numeric value it is recommended to use Snomed CT codes. However, we’re not receiving Snomet CT codes from the lab, therefore, should we expose what is coming from the lab in the “Text” field or make an attempt to translate the lab test name to a Snomed CT code?

Much appreciated.

Yunwei Wang (Dec 17 2020 at 19:45):

Is this USCore related? If so, please move to #argonaut stream

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