Stream: implementers
Topic: Search on Patient ID
Liam (Nov 18 2019 at 08:18):
Hi,
Is there any query where we can perform search on PatientID.
The query should return all the patients containing that part of PatientID.
For e.g : baseurl/Patient?_id:contains=1234 should return patient having IDs 1234, 12345 , a12345 etc.
Thanks
René Spronk (Nov 18 2019 at 08:25):
If you really need this (which sounds like a strange use case to me) then you'd need to add support for a new parameter to your FHIR server. AFAIK there's no way to accomplish this using the core FHIR spec.
Lloyd McKenzie (Nov 18 2019 at 11:16):
_id is of type 'token', which means the "contains" modifier isn't available. (That can only be used for string.) So Rene is correct - you'd have to define a custom search parameter. Note that _id is roughly equivalent to a database primary key - it should not be a real-world identifier, so doing a contains search on it would definitely be uncommon.
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