Care Team Members

In FHIR STU3 standard, CareTeam resource includes all the people and organizations who plan to participate in the coordination and delivery of care for a patient.

CareTeam is including practitioners, as well as other caregivers such as family members, guardians, the patient themself, or others. This type of resource is adapted to described CCDS entry of care team members.

Required or some important fields and parameters would be given in the following tables. Operations and parameters of this resource would also be listed.

Resource Element Fields

Name	Description	Type
identifier	The identifier for the care team resource	Identifier
status	The status code	code (CareTeamStatus)
name	Name of the team, such as crisis assessment team	string
category	Type of team	CodeableConcept (CareTeamCategory)
subject	Who care team is for	Reference (Patient | Group)
context	Encounter or episode associated with CareTeam	Reference (Encounter | EpisodeOfCare)
period	Time period team covers	Period: Period
participant (BackboneElement)	Members of the team	role: CodeableConcept (Participant Roles) member: Reference (Practitioner | Organization | Patient | RelatedPerson | CareTeam) onBehalfOf: Reference (Organization | Period)
reasonCode	Why the care team exists	CodeableConcept (SNOMED CT Clinical Findings)

Get Care Teams by Patient

Example:

                {
    "resourceType": "Bundle",
    "id": "24a084e0-6dbb-4c73-8e7c-7117c5506569",
    "meta": {
        "lastUpdated": "2017-12-26T09:59:11.391-06:00"
    },
    "type": "searchset",
    "total": 1,
    "link": [
        {
            "relation": "self",
            "url": "https://evalfhir.directmdemail.com/fhir/baseDstu3/CareTeam?patient=726"
        }
    ],
    "entry": [
        {
            "fullUrl": "https://evalfhir.directmdemail.com/fhir/baseDstu3/CareTeam/750",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "CareTeam",
                "id": "750",
                "meta": {
                    "versionId": "1",
                    "lastUpdated": "2017-12-26T09:21:57.000-06:00"
                },
                "subject": {
                    "reference": "Patient/726"
                },
                "context": {
                    "reference": "Encounter/737"
                },
                "participant": [
                    {
                        "member": {
                            "reference": "Practitioner/744"
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "member": {
                            "reference": "Practitioner/745"
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "managingOrganization": [
                    {
                        "reference": "Organization/746"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "match"
            }
        }
    ]
}
                
    

For this resource, users are able to search using parameters like date, patient, and category etc. Important searching parameters would be listed in the following table.

Parameter Name	Description	Type	Required
_id	The Id of the certain resource	string	False
identifier	The unique identifier for this resource	string	False
date	Date/Period the procedure was performed	dateTime	False
patient	The Id representing the specific patient related with this resource	integer	True (If the query is concerning a specific patient)
category	Category of this resource	string	False
status	The status of the report	string	False