A sample collected from a patient for the purpose of diagnostics, such as blood or tissue. This page documents the Specimen resource as served by the mock.health synthetic FHIR R4 sandbox — 4 search parameters, US Core 6.1 profiling, and the elements accepted on write.
GET https://api.mock.health/fhir/Specimen — searchGET https://api.mock.health/fhir/Specimen/{id} — read by logical idPOST https://api.mock.health/fhir/Specimen — create (Pro)PUT https://api.mock.health/fhir/Specimen/{id} — update (Pro)patient (reference) — required — Patient the specimen was collected fromidentifier (token) — External specimen identifiertype (token) — Kind of specimen (SNOMED CT)status (token) — available | unavailable | unsatisfactoryFields accepted when creating or updating a Specimen. Required elements are base FHIR cardinality; the rest are US Core must-support.
subject (Reference(Patient)) — US Core MS — patient the specimen was collected fromtype (CodeableConcept) — US Core MS — kind of specimen (SNOMED CT)Base definition: HL7 FHIR R4 Specimen. Category: Diagnostics.
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