Patient

The patient element aims to represent patients. It thus corresponds to an open structure- very few elements are mandatory- that gathers common (administrative) attributes of physical persons.

More precisely, it is composed the following elements.

id	National identifier of the patient according to the ID-PATIENT convention. If such an identifier is not available, the element will be empty.	Mandatory
firstname	First name of the patient. If no first name exists, the element will be empty.	Mandatory
familyname	Family name of the patient	Mandatory
birthdate	Birth date of the patient (uses the basic data types for dates)	Optional
birthlocation	Describes the place of birth. A complete address description may be provided. However, the information will for most purposes be reduced to the city of birth.	Optional
deathdate	Death date of the patient (uses the basic data types for dates)	Optional
sex	Sex of the patient, uses the CD-SEX table.	Mandatory
nationality	Nationality of the patient. Initially, the use of the CD-COUNTRY dictionary was required. We now recommend the use of the CD-FED-COUNTRY dictionary.	Optional
address	Home, work, … address(es) of the patient.	Optional
telecom	Fax, phone, … number(s) of the patient.	Optional
usuallanguage	Usual language of the patient using the W3C language codes.	Optional
recorddatetime	Date of recording of the patient data.	Optional
text	Comment about the patient.	Optional

XML example

<patient>
   <id SV="1.0" S="ID-PATIENT">59120729443</id>
   <firstname>Jeanne</firstname> 
   <familyname>Dupont</familyname>
   <birthdate>
      <date>1978-05-25</date>
   </birthdate>
   <birthlocation>
      <city>Tournai</city>
   </birthlocation>
   <sex>
      <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-SEX">female</cd>
   </sex>
   <nationality>
   <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-FED-COUNTRY">de</cd>
   </nationality>
   <address>
      <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-ADDRESS">home</cd>
      <country>
         <cd SV="1.0" S="CD-FED-COUNTRY">be</cd>
      </country>
      <zip>5000</zip>
      <city>Namur</city>
      <street>Avenue Delmée</street>
      <housenumber>237</housenumber>
   </address>
</patient>