DocumentReference resource (FHIR R4)

DocumentReference is a FHIR R4 resource. The Pidgeon engine generates synthetic DocumentReference instances and validates them against the R4 structure definitions.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "DocumentReference",
  "id": "documentreference-20730ad42ef29b0a5e16dcd42c9f7d44",
  "status": "current",
  "type": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://loinc.org",
        "code": "omitted",
        "display": "LOINC code omitted from this published example"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Progress note"
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/patient-L46A6EIB9J"
  },
  "date": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "content": [
    {
      "attachment": {
        "contentType": "application/pdf",
        "url": "http://hospital.example.org/documents/documentreference-20730ad42ef29b0a5e16dcd42c9f7d44.pdf",
        "title": "Progress note",
        "creation": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate DocumentReference --seed 20260722. Codes from licensed terminologies (LOINC, SNOMED CT, CPT, RxNorm) are omitted from published examples.

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a DocumentReference instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)
• strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)