CarePlan
Describes the intention of how one or more practitioners intend to deliver care for a particular patient, group or community for a period of time, possibly limited to care for a specific condition or set of conditions.
Scope and Usage
CarePlan is one of the request resources in the FHIR workflow specification.
Care Plans are used in many areas of healthcare with a variety of scopes. They can be as simple as a general practitioner keeping track of when their patient is next due for a tetanus immunization through to a detailed plan for an oncology patient covering diet, chemotherapy, radiation, lab work and counseling with detailed timing relationships, pre-conditions and goals. They may be used in veterinary care or clinical research to describe the care of a herd or other collection of animals. In public health, they may describe education or immunization campaigns.
This resource takes an intermediate approach to complexity. It captures basic details about who is involved and what actions are intended without dealing in discrete data about dependencies and timing relationships. These can be supported where necessary using the extension mechanism.
The scope of care plans may vary widely. Examples include:
- Multi-disciplinary cross-organizational care plans; e.g. An oncology plan including the oncologist, home nursing staff, pharmacy and others
- Plans to manage specific disease/condition(s) (e.g. nutritional plan for a patient post bowel resection, neurological plan post head injury, prenatal plan, postpartum plan, grief management plan, etc.)
- Decision support generated plans following specific practice guidelines (e.g. stroke care plan, diabetes plan, falls prevention, etc.)
- Self-maintained patient or care-giver authored plans identifying their goals and an integrated understanding of actions to be taken. This does not include the legal Advance Directives, which should be represented with either the Consent resource with Consent.category = Advance Directive or with a specific request resource with intent = directive. Informal advance directives could be represented as a Goal, such as "I want to die at home." This resource can be used to represent both proposed plans (for example, recommendations from a decision support engine or returned as part of a consult report) as well as active plans. The nature of the plan is communicated by the status. Some systems may need to filter CarePlans to ensure that only appropriate plans are exposed via a given user interface.
Resource content
These are different views on this resource:
CarePlan | |
Definition | Describes the intention of how one or more practitioners intend to deliver care for a particular patient, group or community for a period of time, possibly limited to care for a specific condition or set of conditions. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Alias | Care Team |
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CarePlan.id | |
Definition | The logical id of the resource, as used in the URL for the resource. Once assigned, this value never changes. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | string |
Summary | True |
Comments | The only time that a resource does not have an id is when it is being submitted to the server using a create operation. |
CarePlan.meta | |
Definition | The metadata about the resource. This is content that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | Meta |
Summary | True |
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CarePlan.implicitRules | |
Definition | A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed, and which must be understood when processing the content. Often, this is a reference to an implementation guide that defines the special rules along with other profiles etc. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | uri |
Modifier | True |
Summary | True |
Comments | Asserting this rule set restricts the content to be only understood by a limited set of trading partners. This inherently limits the usefulness of the data in the long term. However, the existing health eco-system is highly fractured, and not yet ready to define, collect, and exchange data in a generally computable sense. Wherever possible, implementers and/or specification writers should avoid using this element. Often, when used, the URL is a reference to an implementation guide that defines these special rules as part of it's narrative along with other profiles, value sets, etc. |
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CarePlan.language | |
Definition | The base language in which the resource is written. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | code |
Binding | A human language. |
Comments | Language is provided to support indexing and accessibility (typically, services such as text to speech use the language tag). The html language tag in the narrative applies to the narrative. The language tag on the resource may be used to specify the language of other presentations generated from the data in the resource. Not all the content has to be in the base language. The Resource.language should not be assumed to apply to the narrative automatically. If a language is specified, it should it also be specified on the div element in the html (see rules in HTML5 for information about the relationship between xml:lang and the html lang attribute). |
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CarePlan.text | |
Definition | A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource and can be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data, but is required to contain sufficient detail to make it "clinically safe" for a human to just read the narrative. Resource definitions may define what content should be represented in the narrative to ensure clinical safety. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | Narrative |
Alias | narrative, html, xhtml, display |
Comments | Contained resources do not have narrative. Resources that are not contained SHOULD have a narrative. In some cases, a resource may only have text with little or no additional discrete data (as long as all minOccurs=1 elements are satisfied). This may be necessary for data from legacy systems where information is captured as a "text blob" or where text is additionally entered raw or narrated and encoded information is added later. |
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CarePlan.contained | |
Definition | These resources do not have an independent existence apart from the resource that contains them - they cannot be identified independently, and nor can they have their own independent transaction scope. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Resource |
Alias | inline resources, anonymous resources, contained resources |
Comments | This should never be done when the content can be identified properly, as once identification is lost, it is extremely difficult (and context dependent) to restore it again. Contained resources may have profiles and tags In their meta elements, but SHALL NOT have security labels. |
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CarePlan.extension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Alias | extensions, user content |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
Slicing | Unordered, Open, by url(Value) |
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CarePlan.modifierExtension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource and that modifies the understanding of the element that contains it and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer is allowed to define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions. Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself). |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Modifier | True |
Alias | extensions, user content |
Requirements | Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions. |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
Slicing | Unordered, Open, by url(Value) |
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CarePlan.identifier | |
Definition | Business identifiers assigned to this care plan by the performer or other systems which remain constant as the resource is updated and propagates from server to server. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Identifier |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Allows identification of the care plan as it is known by various participating systems and in a way that remains consistent across servers. |
Comments | This is a business identifier, not a resource identifier (see discussion). It is best practice for the identifier to only appear on a single resource instance, however business practices may occasionally dictate that multiple resource instances with the same identifier can exist - possibly even with different resource types. For example, multiple Patient and a Person resource instance might share the same social insurance number. |
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CarePlan.instantiatesCanonical | |
Definition | The URL pointing to a FHIR-defined protocol, guideline, questionnaire or other definition that is adhered to in whole or in part by this CarePlan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | canonical(PlanDefinition | Questionnaire | Measure | ActivityDefinition | OperationDefinition) |
Summary | True |
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CarePlan.instantiatesUri | |
Definition | The URL pointing to an externally maintained protocol, guideline, questionnaire or other definition that is adhered to in whole or in part by this CarePlan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | uri |
Summary | True |
Comments | This might be an HTML page, PDF, etc. or could just be a non-resolvable URI identifier. |
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CarePlan.basedOn | |
Definition | A care plan that is fulfilled in whole or in part by this care plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(CarePlan) |
Summary | True |
Alias | fulfills |
Requirements | Allows tracing of the care plan and tracking whether proposals/recommendations were acted upon. |
Comments | References SHALL be a reference to an actual FHIR resource, and SHALL be resolveable (allowing for access control, temporary unavailability, etc.). Resolution can be either by retrieval from the URL, or, where applicable by resource type, by treating an absolute reference as a canonical URL and looking it up in a local registry/repository. |
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CarePlan.replaces | |
Definition | Completed or terminated care plan whose function is taken by this new care plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(CarePlan) |
Summary | True |
Alias | supersedes |
Requirements | Allows tracing the continuation of a therapy or administrative process instantiated through multiple care plans. |
Comments | The replacement could be because the initial care plan was immediately rejected (due to an issue) or because the previous care plan was completed, but the need for the action described by the care plan remains ongoing. |
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CarePlan.partOf | |
Definition | A larger care plan of which this particular care plan is a component or step. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(CarePlan) |
Summary | True |
Comments | Each care plan is an independent request, such that having a care plan be part of another care plan can cause issues with cascading statuses. As such, this element is still being discussed. |
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CarePlan.status | |
Definition | Indicates whether the plan is currently being acted upon, represents future intentions or is now a historical record. |
Cardinality | 1...1 |
Type | code |
Binding | Indicates whether the plan is currently being acted upon, represents future intentions or is now a historical record. |
Modifier | True |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Allows clinicians to determine whether the plan is actionable or not. |
Comments | The unknown code is not to be used to convey other statuses. The unknown code should be used when one of the statuses applies, but the authoring system doesn't know the current state of the care plan. This element is labeled as a modifier because the status contains the code entered-in-error that marks the plan as not currently valid. |
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CarePlan.intent | |
Definition | Indicates the level of authority/intentionality associated with the care plan and where the care plan fits into the workflow chain. |
Cardinality | 1...1 |
Type | code |
Binding | Codes indicating the degree of authority/intentionality associated with a care plan. |
Modifier | True |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Proposals/recommendations, plans and orders all use the same structure and can exist in the same fulfillment chain. |
Comments | This element is labeled as a modifier because the intent alters when and how the resource is actually applicable. |
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CarePlan.category | |
Definition | Identifies what "kind" of plan this is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing plans; e.g. "Home health", "psychiatric", "asthma", "disease management", "wellness plan", etc. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Binding | Identifies what "kind" of plan this is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing plans; e.g. "Home health", "psychiatric", "asthma", "disease management", etc. |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Used for filtering what plan(s) are retrieved and displayed to different types of users. |
Comments | There may be multiple axes of categorization and one plan may serve multiple purposes. In some cases, this may be redundant with references to CarePlan.concern. |
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CarePlan.title | |
Definition | Human-friendly name for the care plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | string |
Summary | True |
Comments | Note that FHIR strings SHALL NOT exceed 1MB in size |
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CarePlan.description | |
Definition | A description of the scope and nature of the plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | string |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Provides more detail than conveyed by category. |
Comments | Note that FHIR strings SHALL NOT exceed 1MB in size |
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CarePlan.subject | |
Definition | Identifies the patient or group whose intended care is described by the plan. |
Cardinality | 1...1 |
Type | Reference(Patient | Group) |
Summary | True |
Alias | patient |
Comments | References SHALL be a reference to an actual FHIR resource, and SHALL be resolveable (allowing for access control, temporary unavailability, etc.). Resolution can be either by retrieval from the URL, or, where applicable by resource type, by treating an absolute reference as a canonical URL and looking it up in a local registry/repository. |
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CarePlan.encounter | |
Definition | The Encounter during which this CarePlan was created or to which the creation of this record is tightly associated. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Encounter) |
Summary | True |
Comments | This will typically be the encounter the event occurred within, but some activities may be initiated prior to or after the official completion of an encounter but still be tied to the context of the encounter. CarePlan activities conducted as a result of the care plan may well occur as part of other encounters. |
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CarePlan.period | |
Definition | Indicates when the plan did (or is intended to) come into effect and end. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Period |
Summary | True |
Alias | timing |
Requirements | Allows tracking what plan(s) are in effect at a particular time. |
Comments | Any activities scheduled as part of the plan should be constrained to the specified period regardless of whether the activities are planned within a single encounter/episode or across multiple encounters/episodes (e.g. the longitudinal management of a chronic condition). |
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CarePlan.created | |
Definition | Represents when this particular CarePlan record was created in the system, which is often a system-generated date. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | dateTime |
Summary | True |
Alias | authoredOn |
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CarePlan.author | |
Definition | When populated, the author is responsible for the care plan. The care plan is attributed to the author. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Patient | Practitioner | PractitionerRole | Device | RelatedPerson | Organization | CareTeam) |
Summary | True |
Comments | The author may also be a contributor. For example, an organization can be an author, but not listed as a contributor. |
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CarePlan.contributor | |
Definition | Identifies the individual(s) or organization who provided the contents of the care plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Patient | Practitioner | PractitionerRole | Device | RelatedPerson | Organization | CareTeam) |
Comments | Collaborative care plans may have multiple contributors. |
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CarePlan.careTeam | |
Definition | Identifies all people and organizations who are expected to be involved in the care envisioned by this plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(CareTeam) |
Requirements | Allows representation of care teams, helps scope care plan. In some cases may be a determiner of access permissions. |
Comments | References SHALL be a reference to an actual FHIR resource, and SHALL be resolveable (allowing for access control, temporary unavailability, etc.). Resolution can be either by retrieval from the URL, or, where applicable by resource type, by treating an absolute reference as a canonical URL and looking it up in a local registry/repository. |
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CarePlan.addresses | |
Definition | Identifies the conditions/problems/concerns/diagnoses/etc. whose management and/or mitigation are handled by this plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Condition) |
Summary | True |
Requirements | Links plan to the conditions it manages. The element can identify risks addressed by the plan as well as active conditions. (The Condition resource can include things like "at risk for hypertension" or "fall risk".) Also scopes plans - multiple plans may exist addressing different concerns. |
Comments | When the diagnosis is related to an allergy or intolerance, the Condition and AllergyIntolerance resources can both be used. However, to be actionable for decision support, using Condition alone is not sufficient as the allergy or intolerance condition needs to be represented as an AllergyIntolerance. |
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CarePlan.supportingInfo | |
Definition | Identifies portions of the patient's record that specifically influenced the formation of the plan. These might include comorbidities, recent procedures, limitations, recent assessments, etc. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Resource) |
Requirements | Identifies barriers and other considerations associated with the care plan. |
Comments | Use "concern" to identify specific conditions addressed by the care plan. |
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CarePlan.goal | |
Definition | Describes the intended objective(s) of carrying out the care plan. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | Reference(Goal) |
Requirements | Provides context for plan. Allows plan effectiveness to be evaluated by clinicians. |
Comments | Goal can be achieving a particular change or merely maintaining a current state or even slowing a decline. |
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CarePlan.activity | |
Definition | Identifies a planned action to occur as part of the plan. For example, a medication to be used, lab tests to perform, self-monitoring, education, etc. |
Cardinality | 0...0 |
Type | BackboneElement |
Requirements | Allows systems to prompt for performance of planned activities, and validate plans against best practice. |
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CarePlan.activity.id | |
Definition | Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | string |
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CarePlan.activity.extension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Alias | extensions, user content |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
Slicing | Unordered, Open, by url(Value) |
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CarePlan.activity.modifierExtension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element and that modifies the understanding of the element in which it is contained and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions. Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself). |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Modifier | True |
Summary | True |
Alias | extensions, user content, modifiers |
Requirements | Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions. |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
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CarePlan.activity.outcomeCodeableConcept | |
Definition | Identifies the outcome at the point when the status of the activity is assessed. For example, the outcome of an education activity could be patient understands (or not). |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Binding | Identifies the results of the activity. |
Comments | Note that this should not duplicate the activity status (e.g. completed or in progress). |
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CarePlan.activity.outcomeReference | |
Definition | Details of the outcome or action resulting from the activity. The reference to an "event" resource, such as Procedure or Encounter or Observation, is the result/outcome of the activity itself. The activity can be conveyed using CarePlan.activity.detail OR using the CarePlan.activity.reference (a reference to a “request” resource). |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Reference(Resource) |
Requirements | Links plan to resulting actions. |
Comments | The activity outcome is independent of the outcome of the related goal(s). For example, if the goal is to achieve a target body weight of 150 lbs and an activity is defined to diet, then the activity outcome could be calories consumed whereas the goal outcome is an observation for the actual body weight measured. |
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CarePlan.activity.progress | |
Definition | Notes about the adherence/status/progress of the activity. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Annotation |
Requirements | Can be used to capture information about adherence, progress, concerns, etc. |
Comments | This element should NOT be used to describe the activity to be performed - that occurs either within the resource pointed to by activity.detail.reference or in activity.detail.description. |
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CarePlan.activity.reference | |
Definition | The details of the proposed activity represented in a specific resource. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | Reference(Appointment | CommunicationRequest | DeviceRequest | MedicationRequest | NutritionOrder | Task | ServiceRequest | VisionPrescription | RequestGroup) |
Requirements | Details in a form consistent with other applications and contexts of use. |
Comments | Standard extension exists (resource-pertainsToGoal) that allows goals to be referenced from any of the referenced resources in CarePlan.activity.reference. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail | |
Definition | A simple summary of a planned activity suitable for a general care plan system (e.g. form driven) that doesn't know about specific resources such as procedure etc. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | BackboneElement |
Requirements | Details in a simple form for generic care plan systems. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.id | |
Definition | Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | string |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.extension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Alias | extensions, user content |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
Slicing | Unordered, Open, by url(Value) |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.modifierExtension | |
Definition | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the element and that modifies the understanding of the element in which it is contained and/or the understanding of the containing element's descendants. Usually modifier elements provide negation or qualification. To make the use of extensions safe and manageable, there is a strict set of governance applied to the definition and use of extensions. Though any implementer can define an extension, there is a set of requirements that SHALL be met as part of the definition of the extension. Applications processing a resource are required to check for modifier extensions. Modifier extensions SHALL NOT change the meaning of any elements on Resource or DomainResource (including cannot change the meaning of modifierExtension itself). |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Extension |
Modifier | True |
Summary | True |
Alias | extensions, user content, modifiers |
Requirements | Modifier extensions allow for extensions that cannot be safely ignored to be clearly distinguished from the vast majority of extensions which can be safely ignored. This promotes interoperability by eliminating the need for implementers to prohibit the presence of extensions. For further information, see the definition of modifier extensions. |
Comments | There can be no stigma associated with the use of extensions by any application, project, or standard - regardless of the institution or jurisdiction that uses or defines the extensions. The use of extensions is what allows the FHIR specification to retain a core level of simplicity for everyone. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.kind | |
Definition | A description of the kind of resource the in-line definition of a care plan activity is representing. The CarePlan.activity.detail is an in-line definition when a resource is not referenced using CarePlan.activity.reference. For example, a MedicationRequest, a ServiceRequest, or a CommunicationRequest. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | code |
Binding | Resource types defined as part of FHIR that can be represented as in-line definitions of a care plan activity. |
Requirements | May determine what types of extensions are permitted. |
Comments | Note that FHIR strings SHALL NOT exceed 1MB in size |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.instantiatesCanonical | |
Definition | The URL pointing to a FHIR-defined protocol, guideline, questionnaire or other definition that is adhered to in whole or in part by this CarePlan activity. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | canonical(PlanDefinition | ActivityDefinition | Questionnaire | Measure | OperationDefinition) |
Requirements | Allows Questionnaires that the patient (or practitioner) should fill in to fulfill the care plan activity. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.instantiatesUri | |
Definition | The URL pointing to an externally maintained protocol, guideline, questionnaire or other definition that is adhered to in whole or in part by this CarePlan activity. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | uri |
Requirements | Allows Questionnaires that the patient (or practitioner) should fill in to fulfill the care plan activity. |
Comments | This might be an HTML page, PDF, etc. or could just be a non-resolvable URI identifier. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.code | |
Definition | Detailed description of the type of planned activity; e.g. what lab test, what procedure, what kind of encounter. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Binding | Detailed description of the type of activity; e.g. What lab test, what procedure, what kind of encounter. |
Requirements | Allows matching performed to planned as well as validation against protocols. |
Comments | Tends to be less relevant for activities involving particular products. Codes should not convey negation - use "prohibited" instead. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.reasonCode | |
Definition | Provides the rationale that drove the inclusion of this particular activity as part of the plan or the reason why the activity was prohibited. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Binding | Identifies why a care plan activity is needed. Can include any health condition codes as well as such concepts as "general wellness", prophylaxis, surgical preparation, etc. |
Comments | This could be a diagnosis code. If a full condition record exists or additional detail is needed, use reasonCondition instead. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.reasonReference | |
Definition | Indicates another resource, such as the health condition(s), whose existence justifies this request and drove the inclusion of this particular activity as part of the plan. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Reference(Condition | Observation | DiagnosticReport | DocumentReference) |
Comments | Conditions can be identified at the activity level that are not identified as reasons for the overall plan. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.goal | |
Definition | Internal reference that identifies the goals that this activity is intended to contribute towards meeting. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Reference(Goal) |
Requirements | So that participants know the link explicitly. |
Comments | References SHALL be a reference to an actual FHIR resource, and SHALL be resolveable (allowing for access control, temporary unavailability, etc.). Resolution can be either by retrieval from the URL, or, where applicable by resource type, by treating an absolute reference as a canonical URL and looking it up in a local registry/repository. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.status | |
Definition | Identifies what progress is being made for the specific activity. |
Cardinality | 1...1 |
Type | code |
Binding | Codes that reflect the current state of a care plan activity within its overall life cycle. |
Modifier | True |
Requirements | Indicates progress against the plan, whether the activity is still relevant for the plan. |
Comments | Some aspects of status can be inferred based on the resources linked in actionTaken. Note that "status" is only as current as the plan was most recently updated. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.statusReason | |
Definition | Provides reason why the activity isn't yet started, is on hold, was cancelled, etc. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Comments | Will generally not be present if status is "complete". Be sure to prompt to update this (or at least remove the existing value) if the status is changed. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.doNotPerform | |
Definition | If true, indicates that the described activity is one that must NOT be engaged in when following the plan. If false, or missing, indicates that the described activity is one that should be engaged in when following the plan. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | boolean |
Modifier | True |
Requirements | Captures intention to not do something that may have been previously typical. |
Comments | This element is labeled as a modifier because it marks an activity as an activity that is not to be performed. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.scheduled[x] | |
Definition | The period, timing or frequency upon which the described activity is to occur. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | Timing |
Requirements | Allows prompting for activities and detection of missed planned activities. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.location | |
Definition | Identifies the facility where the activity will occur; e.g. home, hospital, specific clinic, etc. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | Reference(Location) |
Requirements | Helps in planning of activity. |
Comments | May reference a specific clinical location or may identify a type of location. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.performer | |
Definition | Identifies who's expected to be involved in the activity. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Reference(Practitioner | PractitionerRole | Organization | RelatedPerson | Patient | CareTeam | HealthcareService | Device) |
Requirements | Helps in planning of activity. |
Comments | A performer MAY also be a participant in the care plan. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.product[x] | |
Definition | Identifies the food, drug or other product to be consumed or supplied in the activity. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Binding | A product supplied or administered as part of a care plan activity. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.dailyAmount | |
Definition | Identifies the quantity expected to be consumed in a given day. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | SimpleQuantity |
Alias | daily dose |
Requirements | Allows rough dose checking. |
Comments | The context of use may frequently define what kind of quantity this is and therefore what kind of units can be used. The context of use may also restrict the values for the comparator. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.quantity | |
Definition | Identifies the quantity expected to be supplied, administered or consumed by the subject. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | SimpleQuantity |
Comments | The context of use may frequently define what kind of quantity this is and therefore what kind of units can be used. The context of use may also restrict the values for the comparator. |
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CarePlan.activity.detail.description | |
Definition | This provides a textual description of constraints on the intended activity occurrence, including relation to other activities. It may also include objectives, pre-conditions and end-conditions. Finally, it may convey specifics about the activity such as body site, method, route, etc. |
Cardinality | 0...1 |
Type | string |
Comments | Note that FHIR strings SHALL NOT exceed 1MB in size |
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CarePlan.note | |
Definition | General notes about the care plan not covered elsewhere. |
Cardinality | 0...* |
Type | Annotation |
Requirements | Used to capture information that applies to the plan as a whole that doesn't fit into discrete elements. |
Comments | For systems that do not have structured annotations, they can simply communicate a single annotation with no author or time. This element may need to be included in narrative because of the potential for modifying information. Annotations SHOULD NOT be used to communicate "modifying" information that could be computable. (This is a SHOULD because enforcing user behavior is nearly impossible). |
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<StructureDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <url value="https://example.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/PH_CarePlan" /> <name value="PH_CarePlan" /> <status value="draft" /> <fhirVersion value="4.0.1" /> <kind value="resource" /> <abstract value="false" /> <type value="CarePlan" /> <baseDefinition value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/CarePlan" /> <derivation value="constraint" /> <differential> <element id="CarePlan.identifier"> <path value="CarePlan.identifier" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.instantiatesCanonical"> <path value="CarePlan.instantiatesCanonical" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.instantiatesUri"> <path value="CarePlan.instantiatesUri" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.basedOn"> <path value="CarePlan.basedOn" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.replaces"> <path value="CarePlan.replaces" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.partOf"> <path value="CarePlan.partOf" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.category"> <path value="CarePlan.category" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.title"> <path value="CarePlan.title" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.description"> <path value="CarePlan.description" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.encounter"> <path value="CarePlan.encounter" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.period"> <path value="CarePlan.period" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.created"> <path value="CarePlan.created" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.author"> <path value="CarePlan.author" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.contributor"> <path value="CarePlan.contributor" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.careTeam"> <path value="CarePlan.careTeam" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.addresses"> <path value="CarePlan.addresses" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.supportingInfo"> <path value="CarePlan.supportingInfo" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.goal"> <path value="CarePlan.goal" /> <max value="0" /> </element> <element id="CarePlan.activity"> <path value="CarePlan.activity" /> <max value="0" /> </element> </differential> </StructureDefinition>
{ "resourceType": "StructureDefinition", "url": "https://example.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/PH_CarePlan", "name": "PH_CarePlan", "status": "draft", "fhirVersion": "4.0.1", "kind": "resource", "abstract": false, "type": "CarePlan", "baseDefinition": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/CarePlan", "derivation": "constraint", "differential": { "element": [ { "id": "CarePlan.identifier", "path": "CarePlan.identifier", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.instantiatesCanonical", "path": "CarePlan.instantiatesCanonical", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.instantiatesUri", "path": "CarePlan.instantiatesUri", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.basedOn", "path": "CarePlan.basedOn", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.replaces", "path": "CarePlan.replaces", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.partOf", "path": "CarePlan.partOf", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.category", "path": "CarePlan.category", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.title", "path": "CarePlan.title", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.description", "path": "CarePlan.description", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.encounter", "path": "CarePlan.encounter", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.period", "path": "CarePlan.period", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.created", "path": "CarePlan.created", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.author", "path": "CarePlan.author", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.contributor", "path": "CarePlan.contributor", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.careTeam", "path": "CarePlan.careTeam", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.addresses", "path": "CarePlan.addresses", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.supportingInfo", "path": "CarePlan.supportingInfo", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.goal", "path": "CarePlan.goal", "max": "0" }, { "id": "CarePlan.activity", "path": "CarePlan.activity", "max": "0" } ] } }