Others titles
- FHIR Goal Resource
- Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR
Keywords
- FHIR
- HL7
- Medical Terminology
- Processes Data
- Processes Information
- Processes Documentation
- Health Information Exchange
- Electronic Health Records
- FHIR Smart
- Smart on FHIR
Goal

Goal describes the intended objective(s) for a patient, group or organization care, for example, weight loss, restoring a daily living activity, obtaining herd immunity via immunization, meeting a process improvement objective, etc. A Goal in healthcare services delivery is generally an expressed desired health state to be achieved by a subject of care (or family/group) over a period. This health state may be achieved as a result of health care intervention(s) or natural recovery over time.
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Description
The desired target health state examples include:
– A goal of a plan for a condition such as diabetes might specify desired outcome(s) (e.g. HgbA1c level =<5.6% in 3 months) as a result of interventions such as medication therapy, nutritional management and/or increase physical activity.
– A goal of a procedure might be to meet the intended objective of the procedure (e.g. wet-dry-dressing changes twice a day; goal: wound healed completely in 2 weeks) or to prevent an unintended complication (e.g. repositioning a patient every two hours: goal to maintain skin integrity)
Goals may address the prevention of illness, cure or mitigation of a condition, prolongation of life, or mitigation of pain and discomfort.
When dealing with groups, goals may also reflect health state, such as a reduction of addiction behaviors. However, they may also reflect population health objectives such as education, screening, etc.
Organizational goals are typically not health state specific but may instead identify measurement targets such as infection control, cost management, patient satisfaction, etc.
Goals are typically established in the context of a Care Plan. However, goals may also be directly referenced by request-type resources (e.g. Medication Request or Service Request) by using an extension.
A goal represents a specific goal instance for a particular patient, group, etc. It is not intended to be used to define types of potential goals as part of an order set or protocol definition. Protocol definitions and order sets are supported through Plan Definition. The Goal resource is intended to be used once an order set is instantiated or assigned to a patient, which is when the potential goals become the actual goals, if not changed or deleted. Goals are often evaluated using Observations.
About this Dataset
Data Info
Date Created | 2018-09-20 |
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Last Modified | 2023-03-26 |
Version | 5.0.0 |
Update Frequency |
Annual |
Temporal Coverage |
N/A |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
Source | John Snow Labs; Health Level Seven International; |
Source License URL | |
Source License Requirements |
N/A |
Source Citation |
N/A |
Keywords | FHIR, HL7, Medical Terminology, Processes Data, Processes Information, Processes Documentation, Health Information Exchange, Electronic Health Records, FHIR Smart, Smart on FHIR |
Other Titles | FHIR Goal Resource, Electronic Health Records Exchange Through FHIR |
Data Fields
Name | Description | Type | Constraints |
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Concept_Name | Name of the concept in the FHIR structure. | string | required : 1 |
Computer_Ready_Name | A Computer-ready name (e.g. a token) that identifies the structure - suitable for code generation. Note that this name (and other names relevant for code generation, including element & slice names, codes etc) may collide with reserved words in the relevant target language, and code generators will need to handle this. | string | - |
Type | The type the structure describes. | string | - |
Dollar_Ref | The "$ref" string value contains a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) which identifies the location of the JSON value being referenced. | string | - |
Description | A free text natural language description of the structure and its use. | string | - |
Items | The value of the keyword should be an object or an array of objects. If the keyword value is an object, then for the data array to be valid each item of the array should be valid according to the schema in this value. | string | - |
Enum | The enum is used to restrict a value to a fixed set of values. It must be an array with at least one element, where each element is unique. | string | - |
Required | The value of the keyword should be an array of unique strings. The data object to be valid should contain all properties with names equal to the elements in the keyword value. | string | - |
Const | The value of this keyword can be anything. The data is valid if it is deeply equal to the value of the keyword. | string | - |
Data Preview
Concept Name | Computer Ready Name | Type | Dollar Ref | Description | Items | Enum | Required | Const |
Goal | resourceType | This is a Goal resource | Goal | |||||
Goal | id | #/definitions/id | The logical id of the resource | |||||
Goal | meta | #/definitions/Meta | The metadata about the resource. This is content that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource. | |||||
Goal | implicitRules | #/definitions/uri | A reference to a set of rules that were followed when the resource was constructed | |||||
Goal | _implicitRules | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for implicitRules | |||||
Goal | language | #/definitions/code | The base language in which the resource is written. | |||||
Goal | _language | #/definitions/Element | Extensions for language | |||||
Goal | text | #/definitions/Narrative | A human-readable narrative that contains a summary of the resource and can be used to represent the content of the resource to a human. The narrative need not encode all the structured data | |||||
Goal | contained | array | These resources do not have an independent existence apart from the resource that contains them - they cannot be identified independently | |||||
Goal | extension | array | May be used to represent additional information that is not part of the basic definition of the resource. To make the use of extensions safe and managable |