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| Patient Administration Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Ballot Status: Informative | Compartments: Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson | 
SearchParameter age
{
  "resourceType": "SearchParameter",
  "id": "patient-extensions-Patient-age",
  "url": "http://hl7.org/fhir/SearchParameter/patient-extensions-Patient-age",
  "name": "age",
  "status": "draft",
  "experimental": true,
  "code": "age",
  "base": [
    "Patient"
  ],
  "type": "number",
  "description": "Searches for patients based on age as calculated based on current date and date of birth.  Deceased patients are excluded from the search.",
  "xpath": "f:Patient/f:birthDate",
  "xpathUsage": "normal"
}
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.