A statement higlighting a fact about the patient that requires clinical attention to ensure safety and prevent adverse outcomes. Example 1: intolerance to aspirin due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Example 2: intolerance to captopril because of cough (the patient is not allergic but can't tolerate it because of persistent cough) Example 3: the patient has a rare disease that requires special treatment Example 4: Airway Alert / Difficult Intubation Example 5: Diagnoses such as malignant hyperthermia, porphyria, and bleeding disorders; special treatments like anticoagulants or immunosuppressants; implanted devices. Example 6: transplanted organs illustrate other information that has to be taken into account in a healthcare contact. Example 7: participation in a clinical trial that has to be taken into account in a healthcare contact.

Basic metadata for this information

Patient/subject information

Business identifier for the object, unique within its system. Supporting disambiguation between different contexts (systems/countries).

The author of the alert statement, i.e. the setter of the alert.

Date and optionally time of authoring/issuing

Current status of the alert, indicates whether this alert is active and needs to be displayed to a user, or whether it is no longer needed or was entered in error.

hl7:Flag-status

Source of information (e.g. patient, patient's proxy). Used in case the patient has authored the information or the author has submitted patient-stated information.

Language in which the resource is written. Language is expressed by the IETF language tag.

BCP 47

A coded representation of the alert.

SNOMED CT

Narrative representation of the alert.

A code that identifies the priority of the alert.

hl7:Flag-priority-code

Time period when alert is active. The period of time from the activation of the alert to inactivation of the alert. If the alert is active, the end of the period should be unspecified.

A reference to the resource the alert is about.

A statement higlighting a fact about the patient that requires clinical attention to ensure safety and prevent adverse outcomes. Example 1: intolerance to aspirin due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Example 2: intolerance to captopril because of cough (the patient is not allergic but can't tolerate it because of persistent cough) Example 3: the patient has a rare disease that requires special treatment Example 4: Airway Alert / Difficult Intubation Example 5: Diagnoses such as malignant hyperthermia, porphyria, and bleeding disorders; special treatments like anticoagulants or immunosuppressants; implanted devices. Example 6: transplanted organs illustrate other information that has to be taken into account in a healthcare contact. Example 7: participation in a clinical trial that has to be taken into account in a healthcare contact.

Basic metadata for this information

Patient/subject information

Business identifier for the object, unique within its system. Supporting disambiguation between different contexts (systems/countries).

The author of the alert statement, i.e. the setter of the alert.

Date and optionally time of authoring/issuing

Current status of the alert, indicates whether this alert is active and needs to be displayed to a user, or whether it is no longer needed or was entered in error.

hl7:Flag-status

Source of information (e.g. patient, patient's proxy). Used in case the patient has authored the information or the author has submitted patient-stated information.

Language in which the resource is written. Language is expressed by the IETF language tag.

BCP 47

A coded representation of the alert.

SNOMED CT

Narrative representation of the alert.

A code that identifies the priority of the alert.

hl7:Flag-priority-code

Time period when alert is active. The period of time from the activation of the alert to inactivation of the alert. If the alert is active, the end of the period should be unspecified.

A reference to the resource the alert is about.