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

• ID

• Patient

• Encounter

• Date recorded

• Condition code

• Status

• Category

• Verification status

• Onset (dateTime)

• Resolved

• Severity

• Comment/Note

Terminology Mappings

• Condition.code

  Description: Identification of the condition or diagnosis.

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: http://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: ICD-9-CM

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-9-cm

  • Details: ICD-10-CM

    System: http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-10-cm

• Condition.category

  Description: A category assigned to the condition.

  Note:

  Category codes diagnosis, problem and health-concern are supported for search and retrieve functionality. Codes diagnosis and problem 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

• Condition.clinicalStatus

  Description: Preferred value set for Condition Clinical Status.

  Details: Clinical Status

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-clinical

• Condition.clinicalStatus

  Description: Preferred value set for Condition Clinical Status.

  Details: Clinical Status

  System: http://hl7.org/fhir/condition-clinical

• Condition.severity

  Description: A subjective assessment of the severity of the condition as evaluated by the clinician.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: http://snomed.info/sct

• Condition.severity

  Description: A subjective assessment of the severity of the condition as evaluated by the clinician.

  Details: SNOMED CT

  System: http://snomed.info/sc

• Condition.meta.security

  Description: These tags connect specific resources to the overall security policy and infrastructure.

  Details: ValueSet

  System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode