Referral Request

A Referral Request resource is used to capture a patient care referral or transfer request.

Overview

See the FHIR documentation for more information about Referral Request resources.

Mapped Concepts in HIEBus

• Referral

Supported Interactions

Referral Request resources support the following interactions.

• create
• delete
• read
• search
• update

Search Parameters

When searching for Referral Request 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.
authored-on	Date	ne  lt  le  gt  ge  sa  eb  ap  :missing		Creation or activation date.
context	Reference	:missing	yes	Originating encounter.
encounter	Reference	:missing	yes	Originating encounter.
group-identifier	Token			Part of common request.
identifier	Token	:missing		Business identifier.
intent	Token			Proposal, plan or order.
occurrence-date	Date	ne  lt  le  gt  ge  sa  eb  ap  :missing		When the service(s) requested in the referral should occur.
patient	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the ReferralRequest is about.
priority	Token	:missing		The priority assigned to the referral.
provenance-agent	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by provenance, specified by its author (aka originator) Organization.
recipient	Reference	:missing	yes	The person that the referral was sent to.
requester	Reference	:missing	yes	Individual making the request.
service	String	:contains  :exact  :missing		Actions requested as part of the referral.
specialty	Token			The specialty that the referral is for.
status	Token	:missing		The status of the referral.
subject	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the ReferralRequest is about. Functionally identical to the "patient" search parameter.
type	Token	:not  :in  :notin  :missing		The type of the referral.

Sortable Parameters

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

• date
• _id

Only one sort parameter may be specified.

Supported Includes

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

• Context
• Encounter
• Patient
• Provenance Agent
• Recipient
• Requester
• Subject

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