Patient Consent
A written or verbal agreement by a health care consumer grantor or a personal representative, made to an authorized entity grantee concerning authorized or restricted actions with any limitations on purpose of use, and handling instructions to which the authorized entity must comply:
- Privacy Consent Directive: Agreement, Restriction or Prohibition to collect, access, use or disclose (share) information.
- Medical Treatment Consent Directive: Consent to undergo a specific treatment (or record of refusal to consent).
- Research Consent Directive: Consent to participate in research protocol and information sharing required.
Appears in
Constraints
- test
Stereotype(s)
n/a
Attributes
| Attribute | Type | Multiplicity | Attribute note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Consent Identifier | Identifier | 0..* | Business identifier(s) of a consent directive that can be used for external references. |
| Patient Consent Status Code | Codeable Concept | 1 | Uniquely specifies the current state of the Patient Consent Directive (e.g., draft, active).
Value Set: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/consent-state-codes |
| Patient Consent Scope Code | Codeable Concept | 1 | Uniquely specifies the anticipated use of information covered by this Patient Consent (e.g., advanced care directive, research, treatment, privacy consent).
Value Set: To be developed. |
| Patient Consent Type Code | Codeable Concept | 0..* | Uniquely specifies classification(s) of the Consent statement.
Value Set: To be developed. |
| Patient Consent Date Time | Date Time | 0..1 | The date and, if known, the time when a Patient Consent Directive was created or indexed. |
| Patient Consent Decision Code | Codeable Concept | 0..1 | Uniquely specifies a policy decision (e.g., deny, permit).
Value Set:
http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/consent-provision-type |
Relationships
| From class | From multiplicity | Relationship | To class | To multiplicity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient Consent | 1 | constrained by | Patient Consent Provision Event | 0..* |
| Patient Consent | 0..* | is | Document Reference | 0..* |
| Patient Consent | 1 | covers | Privacy Policy | 0..* |
| Patient Consent | 0..* | managed by | Party Role | 0..* |
| Patient | 1 | subject of | Patient Consent | 0..* |
| Provenance | 0..1 | Patient Consent | 0..* | |
| Patient Consent | 0..* | sourced from | Patient Consent | 0..* |
| Patient Consent Role | 0..* | related to | Patient Consent | 0..* |
| Patient Consent | 0..* | has (aggregation) | Attachment | 0..* |
| Patient Consent | 0..* | scopes | Clinical Document | 0..* |
Contact us
If you have questions about this initiative, would like to be added to our stakeholder notification list or would like to participate in our consultations, please email us.
How to cite:
Canadian Institute for Health Information. Patient Consent. Accessed November 02, 2026.
