Care Team
All individuals working, volunteering, or learning together within the organization to meet the needs of clients, families and the community, including leaders, management, staff, clients, social and health care professionals who hold privileges, contracted providers, volunteers, and students.
Note: As partners in care, patients are recognized and treated as members of the team, who share in decision making and accountability. The specific composition of a team depends on the type(s) of service(s) provided and/or activity performed.
Attributes
| Attribute | Type | Multiplicity | Attribute note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care Team Identifier | Identifier | 0..1 | An alphanumeric value that uniquely identifies a care team. |
| Care Team English Name | String | 0..1 | The English label for human use intended to distinguish like teams. |
| Care Team French Name | String | 0..1 | The French label for human use intended to distinguish like teams. |
| Care Team Status Code | Codeable Concept | 1 | Uniquely specifies the current status of the care team (e.g., proposed, active, inactive, suspended, entered in error).
Value Set: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/valueset-care-team-status.html |
| Care Team Category Code | Codeable Concept | 0..1 | |
| Care Team Effective Period | Period | 1 | The period of time when a care team is or was in place.
Start of period (date and, if known, time) is mandatory. |
Relationships
| From class | From multiplicity | Relationship | To class | To multiplicity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Care Team | 0..1 | has (composition) | Care Team | 0..* |
| Health Care Organization | 0..* | Care Team | 0..* | |
| Care Team | 0..1 | has | Contact Mechanism | 0..* |
| Care Team | 0..* | has (aggregation) | Patient | 0..* |
| Care Team | 0..* | has (aggregation) | Party Group | 0..* |
| Patient Health Concern | 0..* | reason for | Care Team | 0..* |
| Care Team | 0..* | facilitates | Episode Of Care | 0..* |
| Care Team | 0..* | has (composition) | Care Team Participant | 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. Care Team. Accessed November 02, 2026.
