Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Not Persuasive with Modification
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Medium
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International Patient Summary (FHIR)
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current
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Patient Care
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Patient (IPS)
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Artifacts Summary
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John DAmore / Laura Heermann-Langford : 6-0-0
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Clarification
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Non-substantive
Description
Patient.birthDate has been fixed to have a minimum cardinality of 1. This is inappropriate, as the patient's date of birth might not be known. We should not prohibit the exchange of IPS documents for a patient just because the Patient resource does not have a date of birth recorded.
Even if we take the current guidance from FHIR core that "At least an estimated year should be provided as a guess if the real DOB is unknown", it is unreasonable to assume that a reasonable guess could be made at the time of compiling the IPS document. Furthermore, this guidance from FHIR core is also in question in FHIR-35090.
I recommend setting the minimum cardinality to 0 to allow the exchange of IPS documents for Patients that have no birthDate.
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Issue Links
- relates to
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FHIR-35090 Remove guidance from Patient.birthDate to "guess" the DOB.
- Published