Referral

Represents referral of a patient for care by an external party or service or inbound referrals to provide a services related to the patient.

Table 1. Referral

Database Field Name	Field Description	Sensitive Field	Identifiable Field	Field Type	Field Length	Optionality
action_date	The expected date for referral request to be acted upon by receiver	Yes	No	Timestamp	min an4 max an23	O
ctv3_code	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
deletion_flag	Flag specifying that the source record entry has been deleted and receiving systems should logically delete the corresponding record	Yes	No	Boolean	min an4 max an5	O
direction	Is referral an inbound or outbound referral	Yes	No	String	min an2 max an3	M
effective_date	The user modifiable most clinically significant date for the record entry	Yes	No	Timestamp	min an4 max an23	O
encounter_id	The encounter within which the source record entry was made or pertains to	Yes	No	String	an36	O
id	Persistent record identifier for resource	Yes	No	String	an36	M
original_priority	The original referral priority displayed at source	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an32	O
original_service	The service requested for the referral as displayed by the source system	Yes	No	String	min an1` max an256	O
original_type	The referral type displayed by the source system	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an256	O
other_code	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
other_code_system	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
other_display	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
other_expession	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
other_reason	The selected reason/purpose for referral (non free text) displayed by the source system	Yes	No	String	min an1 max an256	O
outcome	Links the referral to a coded outcome where it exists	Yes	No	String	an36	O
patient_id_deid	NHS number DE-IDENTIFIED	Yes	No	String	an200	O
practitioner_id	The clinical attribution of the record entry - the referring clinician or other party	Yes	No	String	an36	M
priority	Referral priority	Yes	No	String	n1	O
readv2_code	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
recorded_date	The source system audit trail timestamp of when the source record was created, amended or deleted	Yes	No	Timestamp	min an4 max an23	M
registration_id	The unique supplier generated persistent technical key for the registration	Yes	No	String	an36	M
rubric	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
service	The service requested for the referral coded according to the specified value set/vocabulary	Yes	No	String	min n6 max n18	O
snomed_concept_id	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
snomed_description_id	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
snomed_expression	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept
source	The source (care setting) for the referral	Yes	No	String	n2	O
specialty	The specialty referred to	Yes	No	String	n3	O
template_id	Links the resource to a template header	Yes	No	String	an36	O
to_organisation	Reference to the organisation record describing the organisation referred to	Yes	No	String	an36	O
to_person	The person referred to	Yes	No	String	an36	O
type	The type of referral mapped to the specified vocabulary	Yes	No	String	min n6 max n18	O
ubrn	e-Referral Service (e-RS) unique booking reference number for referral	Yes	No	String	an12	O
user_selected	The referral reason code. See codable concept	Yes	No	See codable concept	See codable concept	See codable concept