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Compartment Patient

Description The set of resources associated with a particular patient
Identity There is an instance of the patient compartment for each patient resource, and the identity of the compartment is the same as the patient. When a patient is linked to another patient, all the records associated with the linked patient are in the compartment associated with the target of the link.
Membership The patient compartment includes any resources where the subject of the resource is the patient, and some other resources that are directly linked to resources in the patient compartment

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

Resource Inclusion Criteria
AdverseReaction subject
Alert subject
AllergyIntolerance subject
CarePlan subject
Composition subject
Condition subject
DeviceObservationReport subject
DiagnosticOrder subject
DiagnosticReport subject
DocumentManifest subject
DocumentReference subject
Encounter subject
FamilyHistory subject
ImagingStudy subject
Immunization subject
ImmunizationRecommendation subject
List subject
Media subject
MedicationAdministration patient
MedicationDispense patient
MedicationPrescription patient
MedicationStatement patient
Observation subject
Order subject
OrderResponse request.subject
Other patient
Procedure subject
Provenance target.subject or target.patient
Questionnaire subject
RelatedPerson patient
SecurityEvent reference.subject or reference.patient
Specimen subject
Supply patient

A resource is in this compartment if the nominated search parameter (or chain) refers to the patient resource that defines the compartment.

The following resources are never in this compartment:

See information about compartments .