Stream: implementers
Topic: searching PostalCode
Brian Postlethwaite (Jan 23 2017 at 04:20):
Looking at the http://hl7.org/fhir/2017Jan/patient.html#search at the address-postalcode search parameter. Should this really be a Token type search on the string value?
(Implying that partial matches on postcodes are meaningless, and that always should be a full match)
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 23 2017 at 04:26):
I agree that starts-with and contains would be appropriate here, so it ought to be string.
Igor Sirkovich (Jan 23 2017 at 05:34):
I concur with Lloyd. In Canada it's pretty common to search by the first 3 (out of 6) characters of the postal code.
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