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Formal definitions for the elements in the Alert resource.
| Alert | |
| Definition | Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Alert.identifier | |
| Definition | Identifier assigned to the alert for external use (outside the FHIR environment). |
| Control | 0..* |
| Type | Identifier |
| Alert.category | |
| Definition | Allows an alert to be divided into different categories like clinical, administrative etc. |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | CodeableConcept |
| Alert.status | |
| Definition | Supports basic workflow. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Binding | AlertStatus: Indicates whether this alert is active and needs to be displayed to a user, or whether it is no longer needed or entered in error (see http://hl7.org/fhir/alert-status for values) |
| Type | code |
| Alert.subject | |
| Definition | The person who this alert concerns. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | Resource(Patient) |
| Alert.author | |
| Definition | The person or device that created the alert. |
| Control | 0..1 |
| Type | Resource(Practitioner | Patient | Device) |
| Alert.note | |
| Definition | The textual component of the alert to display to the user. |
| Control | 1..1 |
| Type | string |