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Hospital Discharge Report

This section defines the API requirements for EHR systems that provide EEHRxF data that conforms to the HL7 EU Hospital Discharge Report content profile.

Actors

Hospital Discharge Reports can be accessed via document exchange.

Document Exchange

For document-based access, use the Document Exchange transactions.

The Hospital Discharge Report is differentiated via the following DocumentReference fields:

• type: 18842-5 (Discharge summary)
• category: Discharge-Reports (EHDS Priority Category)

Example Query

GET /DocumentReference?patient=123&type=http://loinc.org|18842-5&status=current

See Example: Retrieve A European Patient Summary for a complete workflow example (the pattern is identical).