Describes the patient's care goals, status, timeline, and focus
Can be structured or free-text
Can relate to clinical or social determinants of health (SDOH)
Conforms to US Core Goal Profile under FHIR R4, USCDI v2
lifecycleStatus
– current state (e.g. active, completed)
description
– goal text or coded description
subject
– patient reference
target.dueDate
or target.due[x]
– the expected goal target timeline
By patient ID
GET /Goal?patient=Patient/{id}
By patient + lifecycle status
GET /Goal?patient=Patient/{id}&lifecycle-status=active
By patient + target date
GET /Goal?patient=Patient/{id}&target-date=ge2023-01-01
By patient + description
GET /Goal?patient=Patient/{id}&description=http://snomed.info/sct|1078229009