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Overview

The Goal resource describes the intended objective(s) for a patient, group or organization care, for example, weight loss, restoring an activity of daily living, obtaining herd immunity via immunization, meeting a process improvement objective, etc. Each Goal has next elements:
  • a status
  • text description of the goal
  • a patient
Each Goal supports next elements:
  • target date(s)
  • start date
  • expressed by (who identified the goal)
Profile specific implementation guidance:
  • Free text goals can be used in Goal.description.text when a concept isn’t available or a legacy goal is not mapped to a LOINC or SNOMED concept.
  • See the SDOH guidance page for more information when exchanging Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Goals
This resource conforms to USCDI v3 profile for Goal - refers to StructureDefinition US Core Goal. Goal response will be provided in JSON (refers to Capability Statement) format as per FHIR standard R4 version.

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Must support elements, mandatory and optional search parameters

Goalmust support these elements:
  • lifecycleStatus
  • description
  • subject
  • target
    • dueDate
  • startDate
The following search parameters and search parameter combinations SHALL be supported: The syntax used to describe the interactions is described here. SHALL support searching for all goals for a patient using the patient search parameter: GET [base url]/Goal?patient={Type/}[id] The following search parameter combinations SHOULD be supported (optional): SHOULD support searching using the combination of the patient and lifecycle-status search parameters: GET [base url]/Goal?patient={Type/}[id]&lifecycle-status={system|}[code] SHOULD support searching using the combination of the patient and target-date search parameters:
  • including support for these target-date comparators: gt,lt,ge,le
  • including optional support for AND search on target-date (e.g.target-date={date}&target-date={date}&…) GET [base url]/Goal?patient={Type/}[id]&target-date={gt|lt|ge|le}{date}
SHOULD support searching using the combination of the patient and description search parameters: GET [base url]/Goal?patient={Type/}[id]&description={system|}[code] The response to any search operation is always a list of resources in a Bundle or an Operation Outcome.

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Goal By Patient Id

Search for Goal by patient. METHOD GET
PARAMS [base url] - FHIR base url [id] - Id for the Patient HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Goal By Id

Get Goal by ID. METHOD GET
or
PARAMS [base url] - FHIR base url {id} - Id for Goal resource HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Goal by patient and lifecycle-status

Get Goals using the combination of the patient and lifecycle-status search parameters METHOD GET
PARAMS [base url] - FHIR base url {Type/} - Type for the Reference. Example: Patient [id] - patient id {system|} - an identity of the terminology system, used to specify the state of the goal throughout its lifecycle [code] - the state of the goal throughout its lifecycle HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Goal by patient and target-date search parameters

Get Goals using the combination of the patient and target-date search parameters METHOD GET
PARAMS [base url] - FHIR base url {Type/} - Type for the Reference. Example: Patient [id] - patient id [date] - indicates either the date or the duration after start by which the goal should be met HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE:

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Goal by patient and description search parameters

Get Goals using the combination of the patient and description search parameters METHOD GET
PARAMS [base url] - FHIR base url {Type/} - Type for the Reference. Example: Patient [id] - patient id {system|} - an identity of the terminology system for goal description codes [code] - a coded value for the goal description HEADERS The Authorization token SHALL be obtained during the Authentication and Authorization process. Go to Authentication and Authorization for further details. RESPONSES EXAMPLE: