CarePlan

This topic describes information for the CarePlan resource.

To interact with the REST endpoints in the CarePlan resource, see CarePlan.

The DSTU2 CarePlan resource is used to represent both care plans and care teams.

Care Plans

The CarePlan resource describes the intentions of how one or more practitioners plan to deliver care to a specific patient. Care plans are used in a variety of areas and scopes ranging from specific encounters or visits to cross-visits. Care plans are used to group activities, goals, and practitioners to create context. Care plans are intended to be specific to the patient. A planned activity can also stand alone without a care plan such as a scheduled appointment.

The following fields are returned if valued:

• CarePlan ID

• Subject (patient only)

• Status

• Context (patient encounter)

• Date/Time created

• Author

• Date/Time last modified

• Category (assess-plan)

• Care plan

Care Teams

For DSTU 2 resources, the CarePlan resource is used to represent care team members. Care team members or participants include practitioners (physicians, nurses, technicians, and so on), family members, friends, guardians, and the patient. The care team can be specific to an encounter or to the patient across all encounters (longitudinal).

If using R4 resources, the R4 CareTeam resource is available.

The following fields are returned if valued:

• CarePlan ID

• Subject (patient only)

• Status

• Context (patient encounter)

• Time period

• Last modified

• Category (careteam, longitudinal, or encounter)

• Participant

• Participant details (only applies to references to contained RelatedPerson)

  • Patient

  • Name

  • Contact information (eg: telephone)

• Participant Role

Terminology Bindings

• CarePlan.category

  Description: The type of plan that this is. This element is also used to return a care team (care plan with participants). assess-plan and careteam both belong to the Argonaut extension codes. longitudinal and encounter are CareTeam-specific values from the CareTeam category codes. Currently, these are the only category bindings that are supported.

  • Details: Argonaut Extension Codes

    System: http://argonaut.hl7.org

  • Details: CareTeam Category Codes

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/care-team-category