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    Read a patient

    Use case for reading a patient resource.

    Prerequisites

    Consumer

    The Consumer system:

    API Use Case

    This specification describes a single use cases. For complete details and background please see the Foundations Capability Bundle.

    Security

    • GP Connect utilises TLS Mutual Authentication for system level authorization.
    • GP Connect utilises a JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to transmit clinical audit & provenance details.

    API Usage

    Request Operation

    FHIR Relative Request

    GET /Patient/[id]
    

    FHIR Absolute Request

    GET https://[proxy_server]/https://[provider_server]/[fhir_base]/Patient/[id]
    

    Request Headers

    Consumers SHALL include the following additional HTTP request headers:

    Header Value
    Ssp-TraceID Consumer’s TraceID (i.e. GUID/UUID)
    Ssp-From Consumer’s ASID
    Ssp-To Provider’s ASID
    Ssp-InteractionID urn:nhs:names:services:gpconnect:fhir:rest:read:patient-1

    Payload Request Body

    N/A

    Error Handling

    Provider systems SHALL return an GPConnect-OperationOutcome-1 resource that provides additional detail when one or more data fields are corrupt or a specific business rule/constraint is breached.

    For example the:

    • Logical identifier of the resource is not valid/can’t be found on the server.

    Refer to Development - FHIR API Guidance - Error Handling for details of error codes.

    Request Response

    Response Headers

    Provider systems are not expected to add any specific headers beyond that described in the HTTP and FHIR® standards.

    Payload Response Body

    Provider systems:

    • SHALL return a 200 OK HTTP status code on successful execution of the operation.
    • SHALL return Patient resources that conform to the CareConnect-GPC-Patient-1 profile.
    • SHALL include the URI of the CareConnect-GPC-Patient-1 profile StructureDefinition in the Patient.meta.profile element of the returned Patient resource.
    • SHALL include the versionId of the current version of the Patient resource.
    • SHALL include all relevant business identifier details (i.e. NHS Number) for the Patient resource.
    • SHALL supply gender, name, birth date or deceased date where these are available (as indicated by the Must-Support FHIR property)
    {
    	"resourceType": "Patient",
    	"id": "2",
    	"meta": {
    		"versionId": "636064088097580046",
    		"lastUpdated": "2016-08-10T16:52:39.716+01:00",
    		"profile": ["https://fhir.nhs.uk/STU3/StructureDefinition/CareConnect-GPC-Patient-1"]
    	},
    	"identifier": [{
    		"extension": [{
    			"url": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/STU3/StructureDefinition/Extension-CareConnect-GPC-NHSNumberVerificationStatus-1",
    			"valueCodeableConcept": {
    				"coding": [{
    					"system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/STU3/CodeSystem/CareConnect-NHSNumberVerificationStatus-1",
    					"code": "01"
    				}]
    			}
    		}],
    		"system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number",
    		"value": "9476719931"
    	}],
    	"name": [{
    		"use": "usual",
    		"family": ["Jackson"],
    		"given": ["Jane"],
    		"prefix": ["Miss"]
    	}],
    	"gender": "female",
    	"birthDate": "22/02/1982"
    }
    

    Examples

    C#

    var client = new FhirClient("http://gpconnect.aprovider.nhs.net/GP001/STU3/1/");
    client.PreferredFormat = ResourceFormat.Json;
    var resource = client.Read<Patient>("Patient/2");
    FhirSerializer.SerializeResourceToXml(resource).Dump();
    

    Java

    FhirContext ctx = new FhirContext().forStu3();
    IGenericClient client = ctx.newRestfulGenericClient("http://gpconnect.aprovider.nhs.net/GP001/STU3/1/");
    Patient patient = client.read().resource(Patient.class).withId("2").execute();
    
    Tags: foundations

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