Describes the event of a patient being administered a vaccine or a record of an immunization as reported by a patient, a clinician or another party.

A unique identifier assigned to this immunization record.

Indicates the current status of the immunization event.

Will generally be set to show that the immunization has been completed or not done.

This element is labeled as a modifier because the status contains codes that mark the resource as not currently valid.

Vaccine that was administered or was to be administered.

The patient who either received or did not receive the immunization.

The visit or admission or other contact between patient and health care provider the immunization was performed as part of.

Date vaccine administered or was to be administered.

When immunizations are given a specific date and time should always be known. When immunizations are patient reported, a specific date might not be known.  Although partial dates are allowed, an adult patient might not be able to recall the year a childhood immunization was given.

An indication that the content of the record is based on information from the person who administered the vaccine. This reflects the context under which the data was originally recorded.

Reflects the “reliability” of the content.

The source of the data when the report of the immunization event is not based on information from the person who administered the vaccine.

Should not be populated if primarySource = True, not required even if primarySource = False.

The service delivery location where the vaccine administration occurred.

Name of vaccine manufacturer.

Lot number of the vaccine product.

Date vaccine batch expires.

Body site where vaccine was administered.

The path by which the vaccine product is taken into the body.

The quantity of vaccine product that was administered.

Indicates who performed the immunization event.

Describes the type of performance (e.g. ordering provider, administering provider, etc.).

The practitioner who performed the action.

Extra information about the immunization that is not conveyed by the other attributes.

Reasons why a vaccine was or was not administered.

Educational material presented to the patient (or guardian) at the time of vaccine administration.

Identifier of the material presented ot the patient.

Reference pointer to the educational material given to the patient if the information was on line.

Date the educational material was published.

Date the educational material was given to the patient.

Indicates a patient's eligibility for a funding program.

Indicates the source of the vaccine actually administered. This may be different than the patient eligbility (e.g. the patient may be eligibile for a publically purchased vaccine but due to inventory issues, vaccine purchased with private funds was actually administered).