Procedure

Examples & Testing

A Procedure resource represents an action or intervention performed on a patient.

See the FHIR documentation for more information about Procedure resources.

Procedure resources support the following interactions.

When searching for Procedure resources, the following search parameters are supported.

Name	Type	Prefixes Modifiers	Can be Chained?	Description
_id	Token			Resource id.
_lastUpdated	Date	ne lt le gt ge sa eb ap		When the resource last changed.
_source	Uri	:missing		Where the resource comes from.
claim	Reference	:missing	yes	Searches for procedures by their associated claim.
code	Token	:not :in :notin :missing		A code to identify a procedure.
date	Date	ne lt le gt ge sa eb ap :missing		When the procedure was performed.
encounter	Reference	:missing	yes	Encounter created as part of.
explanation-of-benefit	Reference	:missing	yes	Searches for procedures by their associated explanation of benefit.
patient	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by subject - a patient.
performer	Reference	:missing	yes	The reference to the practitioner.
provenance-agent	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by provenance, specified by its author (aka originator) Organization.
status	Token	:missing		preparation \| in-progress \| not-done \| on-hold \| stopped \| completed \| entered-in-error \| unknown.
subject	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by subject.

When searching Procedure resources, it is possible to sort the returned values by the following search parameters.

Only one sort parameter may be specified.

When searching Procedure resources, it is possible to include the resources referenced by the following field names.