This resource details the individual(s), team(s), or organization(s) who participate in or implement care for a patient or group. This could include non-providers like family members or guardians or transient team members for extended care. Typically, this resource type is referenced within a CarePlan or Encounter resource to define the context for a treatment plan or patient visit.
You can review or retrieve care team information.
_search
Query for the care plan team information from one organization.
For data on demand searches, you must include this query parameter:
- FHIR® resource ID for Patient resource (learn about FHIR® references or review HL7's docs on references)
cURL request example
Request Body Schema
- patientArray of string
Who has the care team?
- patient.identifierArray of string
One or more external identifiers for the patient
- statusArray of string
proposed | active | suspended | inactive | entered-in-error
- resourceTyperequired, string
Identifies the type of the resource
Value:Bundle
- typerequired, string
Identifies this bundle as a response to a search
Value:searchset
- totalrequired, number
The total number of matches
- entryArray of CareTeam or Other
A resource matching the search criteria or related to a matching resource
- resourcerequired, object
Care teams responsible for a patient.
- resourceTyperequired, string
Identifies the type of the resource
Value:CareTeam
- subjectrequired, object
Identifies the patient or group whose intended care is handled by the team.
Must be a resource of type
Patient
.- referencestring
A reference to another resource. This is typically either a relative reference which includes the resource type and ID, or an internal reference which starts with
#
and refers to a contained resource.
- participantrequired, Array of object
Identifies all people and organizations who are expected to be involved in the care team.
- rolerequired, Array of object
Indicates specific responsibility of an individual within the care team, such as "Primary care physician", "Trained social worker counselor", "Caregiver", etc.
- codingArray of object
A reference to a code defined by a terminology system.
- systemstring
The identification of the code system that defines the meaning of the symbol in the code.
- codestring
A symbol in syntax defined by the system. The symbol may be a predefined code or an expression in a syntax defined by the coding system (e.g. post-coordination).
- textstring
A human language representation of the concept as seen/selected/uttered by the user who entered the data and/or which represents the intended meaning of the user.
- memberrequired, object
The specific person or organization who is participating/expected to participate in the care team.
Must be a resource of type
Practitioner
.- referencestring
A reference to another resource. This is typically either a relative reference which includes the resource type and ID, or an internal reference which starts with
#
and refers to a contained resource.
- periodobject
Indicates when the specific member or organization did (or is intended to) come into effect and end.
- startstring
The start of the period. The boundary is inclusive.
- endstring
The end of the period. If the end of the period is missing, it means no end was known or planned at the time the instance was created. The start may be in the past, and the end date in the future, which means that period is expected/planned to end at that time.
- idstring
The logical id of the resource, as used in the URL for the resource. Once assigned, this value never changes.
- statusstring
Indicates the current state of the care team.
Possible Values:proposed
,active
,suspended
,inactive
,entered-in-error
- categoryArray of object
Identifies what kind of team. This is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing teams, such as care plan team, episode of care team, longitudinal care team.
- codingArray of object
A reference to a code defined by a terminology system.
- systemstring
The identification of the code system that defines the meaning of the symbol in the code.
- codestring
A symbol in syntax defined by the system. The symbol may be a predefined code or an expression in a syntax defined by the coding system (e.g. post-coordination).
- textstring
A human language representation of the concept as seen/selected/uttered by the user who entered the data and/or which represents the intended meaning of the user.
- namestring
A label for human use intended to distinguish like teams. E.g. the "red" vs. "green" trauma teams.
- encounterobject
The Encounter during which this CareTeam was created or to which the creation of this record is tightly associated.
Must be a resource of type
Encounter
.- referencestring
A reference to another resource. This is typically either a relative reference which includes the resource type and ID, or an internal reference which starts with
#
and refers to a contained resource.
- managingOrganizationArray of object
The organization responsible for the care team.
Must be a resource of type
Organization
.- referencestring
A reference to another resource. This is typically either a relative reference which includes the resource type and ID, or an internal reference which starts with
#
and refers to a contained resource.
- searchrequired, object
Information about the search process that lead to the creation of this entry.
- moderequired, string
Identifies the CareTeam as matching the search parameters
Value:match
Response to a CareTeam search operation