RelatedPerson

Elements

Name	Required	Type	Description
identifier		Identifier[]	A human identifier for this person Details Identifier for a person within a particular scope.
active		boolean	Whether this related person's record is in active use Details Whether this related person record is in active use. This element is labeled as a modifier because it may be used to mark that the resource was created in error.
patient	✓	Reference<Patient>	The patient this person is related to Details The patient this person is related to.
relationship		CodeableConcept[]	The nature of the relationship Details The nature of the relationship between a patient and the related person.
name		HumanName[]	A name associated with the person Details A name associated with the person.
telecom		ContactPoint[]	A contact detail for the person Details A contact detail for the person, e.g. a telephone number or an email address. Person may have multiple ways to be contacted with different uses or applicable periods. May need to have options for contacting the person urgently, and also to help with identification.
gender		code	male \| female \| other \| unknown Details Administrative Gender - the gender that the person is considered to have for administration and record keeping purposes.
birthDate		date	The date on which the related person was born Details The date on which the related person was born.
address		Address[]	Address where the related person can be contacted or visited Details Address where the related person can be contacted or visited.
photo		Attachment[]	Image of the person Details Image of the person.
period		Period	Period of time that this relationship is considered valid Details The period of time during which this relationship is or was active. If there are no dates defined, then the interval is unknown.
communication		RelatedPersonCommunication[]	A language which may be used to communicate with about the patient's health Details A language which may be used to communicate with about the patient's health. If no language is specified, this implies that the default local language is spoken. If you need to convey proficiency for multiple modes, then you need multiple RelatedPerson.Communication associations. If the RelatedPerson does not speak the default local language, then the Interpreter Required Standard can be used to explicitly declare that an interpreter is required.
id		string	Unique id for inter-element referencing Details Unique id for the element within a resource (for internal references). This may be any string value that does not contain spaces.
extension		Extension[]	Additional content defined by implementations Details 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. 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.
modifierExtension		Extension[]	Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized Details 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). 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.
language	✓	CodeableConcept	The language which can be used to communicate with the patient about his or her health Details The ISO-639-1 alpha 2 code in lower case for the language, optionally followed by a hyphen and the ISO-3166-1 alpha 2 code for the region in upper case; e.g. "en" for English, or "en-US" for American English versus "en-EN" for England English. The structure aa-BB with this exact casing is one the most widely used notations for locale. However not all systems actually code this but instead have it as free text. Hence CodeableConcept instead of code as the data type.
preferred		boolean	Language preference indicator Details Indicates whether or not the patient prefers this language (over other languages he masters up a certain level). This language is specifically identified for communicating healthcare information.

Search Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Expression
address	string	A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the Address, including line, city, district, state, country, postalCode, and/or text	RelatedPerson.address
address-city	string	A city specified in an address	RelatedPerson.address.city
address-country	string	A country specified in an address	RelatedPerson.address.country
address-postalcode	string	A postal code specified in an address	RelatedPerson.address.postalCode
address-state	string	A state specified in an address	RelatedPerson.address.state
address-use	token	A use code specified in an address	RelatedPerson.address.use
birthdate	date	The Related Person's date of birth	RelatedPerson.birthDate
email	token	A value in an email contact	RelatedPerson.telecom.where(system = 'email')
gender	token	Gender of the related person	RelatedPerson.gender
phone	token	A value in a phone contact	RelatedPerson.telecom.where(system = 'phone')
phonetic	string	A portion of name using some kind of phonetic matching algorithm	RelatedPerson.name
telecom	token	The value in any kind of contact	RelatedPerson.telecom
active	token	Indicates if the related person record is active	RelatedPerson.active
identifier	token	An Identifier of the RelatedPerson	RelatedPerson.identifier
name	string	A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the HumanName, including family, give, prefix, suffix, suffix, and/or text	RelatedPerson.name
patient	reference	The patient this related person is related to	RelatedPerson.patient
relationship	token	The relationship between the patient and the relatedperson	RelatedPerson.relationship

Inherited Elements

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Logical id of this artifact Details The logical id of the resource, as used in the URL for the resource. Once assigned, this value never changes. The only time that a resource does not have an id is when it is being submitted to the server using a create operation.
meta	Meta	Metadata about the resource Details 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.
implicitRules	uri	A set of rules under which this content was created Details 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. 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.
language	code	Language of the resource content Details The base language in which the resource is written. 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).
text	Narrative	Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation Details 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. 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.
contained	Resource[]	Contained, inline Resources Details 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. 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.
extension	Extension[]	Additional content defined by implementations Details 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. 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.
modifierExtension	Extension[]	Extensions that cannot be ignored Details 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). 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.

RelatedPersons typically have a personal or non-healthcare-specific professional relationship to the patient. A RelatedPerson resource is primarily used for attribution of information, since RelatedPersons are often a source of information about the patient. For keeping information about people for contact purposes for a patient, use a Patient's Contact element. Some individuals may serve as both a Patient's Contact and a Related Person.

Example RelatedPersons are:

A patient's wife or husband
A patient's relatives or friends
A neighbor bringing a patient to the hospital
The owner or trainer of a horse
A patient's attorney or guardian
A Guide Dog

The primary distinction between a Practitioner and a RelatedPerson is based on whether:

The person/animal operates on behalf of the care delivery organization over multiple patients (Practitioner) or,
Where the person/animal is not associated with the organization, and instead is allocated tasks specifically for the RelatedPerson's Patient (RelatedPerson).

A standard extension animalSpecies can be used to indicate the species of a service animal.

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