# Patient: Animal - HL7 Europe Laboratory Report v2.0.0

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

## Resource Profile: Patient: Animal 

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://hl7.eu/fhir/laboratory/StructureDefinition/Patient-animal-eu-lab | *Version*:2.0.0 | |
| * 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*:PatientAnimalEu |
| **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. This profile SHALL NOT be used to identify the species when a specimen is collected from an animal. Animal Specimen are represented by AnimalSpecimenEuLab. 

#### Implementation status

**Implementation status**

 The profile `PatientAnimalEu`, and therefore the use case where the animal is the patient/subject of care, is currently blocked by a limitation in `hl7-base`. 

 At the moment, `hl7-base` allows only `PatientEuCore` as `subject`. 

 This limitation is expected to be resolved in a future version of `hl7-base`. 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [ServiceRequest: Laboratory Order](StructureDefinition-ServiceRequest-eu-lab.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.laboratory|current/StructureDefinition/Patient-animal-eu-lab)

### 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-lab.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-Patient-animal-eu-lab.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-Patient-animal-eu-lab.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "Patient-animal-eu-lab",
  "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/laboratory/StructureDefinition/Patient-animal-eu-lab",
  "version" : "2.0.0",
  "name" : "PatientAnimalEu",
  "title" : "Patient: Animal",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2026-05-05T16:28:07+02:00",
  "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.\nThis profile SHALL NOT be used to identify the species when a specimen is collected from an animal. Animal Specimen are represented by AnimalSpecimenEuLab.",
  "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.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Patient",
      "path" : "Patient"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Patient.extension",
      "path" : "Patient.extension",
      "slicing" : {
        "discriminator" : [{
          "type" : "value",
          "path" : "url"
        }],
        "ordered" : false,
        "rules" : "open"
      },
      "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|5.2.0"]
      }]
    },
    {
      "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/laboratory/ValueSet/lab-speciesType-eu-vs"
      }
    },
    {
      "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.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.maritalStatus",
      "path" : "Patient.maritalStatus",
      "max" : "0"
    }]
  }
}

```
