Profiles

The key FHIR profiles that are referenced by this implementation guide are listed below. Each profile is documented using the format described in Profile Descriptions.

Refer to the Design Overview section for supporting information, including a description of the Pathology FHIR data model and the design approach that has been adopted as part of this implementation guide.

The profiles are derived from the UK Core Implementation Guide (STU3 Sequence). The profile descriptions and additional guidance described in this implementation guide (i.e. the Pathology FHIR Implementation Guide) must be read in conjunction with the UK Core Implementation Guide.

The STU2 version of the UK Core Implementation Guide introduced a new set of laboratory specific FHIR R4 derived profiles, indicated by the ‘Lab’ suffix in the profile name. These profiles are derived from the corresponding base R4 FHIR resource, rather than the UK Core version e.g. UKCore-DiagnosticReport-Lab is based on DiagnosticReport, not UKCore-DiagnosticReport.

In previous versions of this implementation guide, test groups and test results were represented using two different Observation based profiles (UK-Core-Observation-Group-Lab and UK-Core-Observation-Lab respectively). From version 0.2.0 onward, UK-Core-Observation-Lab is used to represent both test groups and test results, replacing the previous use of UK-Core-Observation-Group-Lab. Separate pages detailing the use of UK-Core-Observation-Lab in each context have been retained.

The following FHIR resources are also referenced by this implementation guide but do not have corresponding UK Core profiles. Please refer to the descriptions of the resources in the base FHIR R4 Specification for further details:

Refer to How to Construct Bundles for a description of how the profiles and resources may be used to form FHIR Bundles for test requesting and reporting.