Patient $match
FHIR Operation: $match
HTTP Method: POST
Invocations
URL: [base]/Patient/$match
Parameters (In)
| Name | Cardinality | Type | Documentation |
| [Patient] | 1..1 | Patient | This is a set of matching criteria in patient demographics. |
Return Values (Out)
| Name | Cardinality | Type | Documentation |
| bundle | 1..1 | Bundle | The patient matching results in a bundle (of type 'searchset') containing the following resources (if any): Patient, OperationOutcome. The OperationOutcome contains any errors or warnings related to this operation if any. |
Patients can be matched by their last and first names (mandatory), date of birth (mandatory), date of death, administrative gender and address.
As specified by Client Registry Services (CRS), a minimum search criteria has to be met for patient search to be sucessful.
Minimum search criteria is a combination of
Patient Last Name + First Name + Date of Birth
Addition optional search criteria:
Administrative gender, Date of death, Address
This transaction returns a list of maximum 10 patient resources in a FHIR bundle. Only the most recent patient demographics from EMPI are included in this response. For detail patient demographics, a subsequent call to a Read operation is suggested.
An example of patient $match request and response: