Stream: implementers
Topic: Tags & Flags
Dave Barnet (Jul 04 2019 at 10:44):
We have a requirement to tag/flag patients that are of interest for various clinical & non-clinical reasons. For example we might want to tag/flag patients that have taken part in a clinical trial, so we can easily re-identify them in the future to check on health outcomes. In the FHIR model there are many ways of doing this. For example you could
- Create a Group with the characteristic of being part of a trial
- Create a Flag to flag the patients who were in the trial
- Create a List of Patients that participated in the trial
- Use Patient.meta.tag to tag the patients of interest
Is there an accepted practice for flagging/tagging patients of interest?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 04 2019 at 14:50):
Best way to tag a patient as having been part of a clinical trial is to have a ResearchSubject instance that links them to the trial. That's how their membership would usually be exposed.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 04 2019 at 14:51):
For a more general "of interest for some arbitrary reason", tag is probably your best bet because it allows searching directly against patient without doing any joins.
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