DocumentReference
This topic describes information for the DocumentReference resource.
To interact with the REST endpoints in the DocumentReference resource, see DocumentReference.
Overview
The DocumentReference resource is used to reference a clinical document for a patient within the health system. This resource supports reading Continuity of Care Documents (CCDs), returning a list of clinical documents, and a reference to retrieve a document as a PDF. When retrieving document links and metadata, this resource refers to the Binary resource for downloading the complete document.
Additionally, this resource supports writing an unstructured document. For fields supported on write, see the appropriate task for this resource.
The following fields are returned if valued for clinical documents:
The following fields are returned if valued for the $docref operation (CCD read):
Terminology Bindings
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Description: The precise type of clinical document.
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Details: LOINC Document Types
System:
http://loinc.org
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Details: For more information, see Code Set 72 Clinical Event Codes under the List of Code Sets section in Proprietary Codes.
System:
https://fhir.cerner.com/<EHR_source_id>/codeSet/72
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