# Patient: Animal (EU core) - HL7 Europe Base and Core FHIR IG v2.0.0-gamma

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **Patient: Animal (EU core)**

## Resource Profile: Patient: Animal (EU core) 

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://hl7.eu/fhir/base/StructureDefinition/patient-animal-eu-core | *Version*:2.0.0-gamma | |
| * Standards status: *[Trial-use](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/versions.html#std-process) | [Maturity Level](http://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#maturity): 2 | *Computable Name*:PatientAnimalEuCore |
| **Copyright/Legal**: Copyright HL7 Europe. Licensed under creative commons public domain (CC0 1.0). | | |

 
This profile defines how to represent an Animal as subject of care in FHIR for the purpose of this guide. 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [DiagnosticReport (EU core)](StructureDefinition-diagnosticReport-eu-core.md)
* Examples for this Profile: [Patient/Patient-animal-example](Patient-Patient-animal-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/hl7.fhir.eu.base|current/StructureDefinition/patient-animal-eu-core)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-patient-animal-eu-core.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-patient-animal-eu-core.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-patient-animal-eu-core.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "patient-animal-eu-core",
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
    "valueInteger" : 2
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
    "valueCode" : "trial-use"
  }],
  "url" : "http://hl7.eu/fhir/base/StructureDefinition/patient-animal-eu-core",
  "version" : "2.0.0-gamma",
  "name" : "PatientAnimalEuCore",
  "title" : "Patient: Animal (EU core)",
  "status" : "draft",
  "date" : "2026-02-25T10:00:47+01:00",
  "publisher" : "HL7 Europe",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "HL7 Europe",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "http://hl7.eu"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "This profile defines how to represent an Animal as subject of care in FHIR for the purpose of this guide.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "150",
      "display" : "Europe"
    }]
  }],
  "copyright" : "Copyright HL7 Europe. Licensed under creative commons public domain (CC0 1.0).",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "cda",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3/cda",
    "name" : "CDA (R2)"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "w5",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
    "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "v2",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v2",
    "name" : "HL7 v2 Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "loinc",
    "uri" : "http://loinc.org",
    "name" : "LOINC code for the element"
  }],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "Patient",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.eu/fhir/base/StructureDefinition/patient-eu",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Patient",
      "path" : "Patient",
      "short" : "Information about an animal receiving health care services"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension",
      "path" : "Patient.extension",
      "min" : 1
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension:patient-animal",
      "path" : "Patient.extension",
      "sliceName" : "patient-animal",
      "min" : 1,
      "max" : "1",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Extension",
        "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/patient-animal"]
      }]
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension:patient-animal.extension:species",
      "path" : "Patient.extension.extension",
      "sliceName" : "species"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension:patient-animal.extension:species.value[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.extension.extension.value[x]",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "example",
        "valueSet" : "http://hl7.eu/fhir/base/ValueSet/speciesType-eu"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension:recordedSexOrGender",
      "path" : "Patient.extension",
      "sliceName" : "recordedSexOrGender",
      "min" : 0,
      "max" : "1",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Extension",
        "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/individual-recordedSexOrGender"]
      }]
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.identifier",
      "path" : "Patient.identifier",
      "short" : "Animal identifier"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.telecom",
      "path" : "Patient.telecom",
      "short" : "Use contact.telecom",
      "comment" : "Animals do not have phones, their contacts do. Contact.telecom should be used.",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.deceased[x]",
      "path" : "Patient.deceased[x]",
      "short" : "Deceased status"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.maritalStatus",
      "path" : "Patient.maritalStatus",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.communication",
      "path" : "Patient.communication",
      "max" : "0"
    }]
  }
}

```
