Skip to content

PatientRole (CDA Class) - Clinical Document Architecture v2.0.1-sd-202510-matchbox-patch

Logical Model: PatientRole (CDA Class)

Official URL:http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/PatientRole Version:2.0.1-sd-202510-matchbox-patch
Active as of 2025-10-29 Computable Name:PatientRole

A recordTarget is represented as a relationship between a person and an organization, where the person is in a patient role (PatientRole class). The entity playing the role is a patient (Patient class). The entity scoping the role is an organization (Organization class). A patient is uniquely identified via the PatientRole.id attribute.

Usages:

You can also check for usages in the FHIR IG Statistics

Formal Views of Template Content

Description of Template, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work.

Other representations of profile: CSV, Excel

Resource Content

{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "PatientRole",
  "extension" : [
    {
      "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/logical-target",
      "_valueBoolean" : {
        "extension" : [
          {
            "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/data-absent-reason",
            "valueCode" : "not-applicable"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/xml-namespace",
      "valueUri" : "urn:hl7-org:v3"
    },
    {
      "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/xml-name",
      "valueString" : "patientRole"
    },
    {
      "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/logical-container",
      "valueUri" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/ClinicalDocument"
    },
    {
      "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/type-profile-style",
      "valueCode" : "cda"
    }
  ],
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/PatientRole",
  "version" : "2.0.1-sd-202510-matchbox-patch",
  "name" : "PatientRole",
  "title" : "PatientRole (CDA Class)",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2025-10-29T22:15:57+01:00",
  "publisher" : "Health Level 7",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "HL7 International - Structured Documents",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/structure"
        },
        {
          "system" : "email",
          "value" : "structdog@lists.HL7.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "A recordTarget is represented as a relationship between a person and an organization, where the person is in a patient role (PatientRole class). The entity playing the role is a patient (Patient class). The entity scoping the role is an organization (Organization class). A patient is uniquely identified via the PatientRole.id attribute.",
  "fhirVersion" : "5.0.0",
  "mapping" : [
    {
      "identity" : "rim",
      "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
      "name" : "RIM Mapping"
    }
  ],
  "kind" : "logical",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/PatientRole",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/InfrastructureRoot",
  "derivation" : "specialization",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole",
        "path" : "PatientRole",
        "min" : 1,
        "max" : "1"
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.classCode",
        "path" : "PatientRole.classCode",
        "representation" : ["xmlAttr"],
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "1",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "code",
            "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/cs-simple"]
          }
        ],
        "fixedCode" : "PAT",
        "binding" : {
          "strength" : "required",
          "valueSet" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-RoleClassRelationshipFormal"
        }
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.id",
        "path" : "PatientRole.id",
        "min" : 1,
        "max" : "*",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/II"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.sdtcIdentifiedBy",
        "extension" : [
          {
            "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/xml-namespace",
            "valueUri" : "urn:hl7-org:sdtc"
          },
          {
            "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/tools/StructureDefinition/xml-name",
            "valueString" : "identifiedBy"
          }
        ],
        "path" : "PatientRole.sdtcIdentifiedBy",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "*",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/IdentifiedBy"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.addr",
        "path" : "PatientRole.addr",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "*",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/AD"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.telecom",
        "path" : "PatientRole.telecom",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "*",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/TEL"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.patient",
        "path" : "PatientRole.patient",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "1",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Patient"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "PatientRole.providerOrganization",
        "path" : "PatientRole.providerOrganization",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "1",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/StructureDefinition/Organization"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}