Condition
This topic describes information for the Condition resource.
To interact with the REST endpoints in the Condition resource, see Condition.
Overview
The Condition resource is used to record details about a patient's problems, diagnoses, or other health matters that are concerning to the patient. Conditions are commonly captured during the encounter or visit. This information is usually captured both as initial suspected problems and confirmed or refuted problems or diagnoses at the time of discharge. This resource may be referenced by other resources as a reason for an action or order such as the reason for ordering a medication or procedure.
This resource is not intended to record subjective or objective information that could lead to the recording of a condition such as signs or symptoms. Signs and symptoms are typically documented as observations, although some persistent symptoms such as fever or headache may be documented before the definitive diagnosis is recognized by a clinician.
References to implicitRules
and modifierExtension
fields
are not supported and cause a create or update request to fail.
Note:
The examples provided here are non-normative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site. The meta.security field is present only when a problem or diagnosis is marked as confidential.Fields
Terminology Mappings
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Description: Identification of the condition or diagnosis.
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Description: A category assigned to the condition.
Note:
Category codesdiagnosis
,problem
andhealth-concern
are supported for search and retrieve functionality. Codesdiagnosis
andproblem
are supported for conditions add and update functionality.-
Details: Condition Category Codes
System:
http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-category
-
Details: Argonaut Valueset Codes
System:
http://argonaut.hl7.org
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-
Description: Preferred value set for Condition Clinical Status.
Details: Clinical Status
System:
http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-clinical
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Description: Preferred value set for Condition Clinical Status.
Details: Clinical Status
System:
http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-clinical
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Description: A subjective assessment of the severity of the condition as evaluated by the clinician.
Details: SNOMED CT
System:
http://snomed.info/sct
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Description: A subjective assessment of the severity of the condition as evaluated by the clinician.
Details: SNOMED CT
System:
http://snomed.info/sc
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Description: These tags connect specific resources to the overall security policy and infrastructure.
Details: ValueSet
System:
http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode