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Consent resource (FHIR R4)

Consent is the FHIR R4 resource for a record of a healthcare consumer’s choices, which permits or denies identified recipient(s) or recipient role(s) to perform one or more actions within a given policy context, for specific purposes and periods of time.

ResourceConsent
FHIR versionR4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URLhttp://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Consent
Required elementsstatus (1..1), scope (1..1), category (1..*)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Consent",
  "id": "consent-4099a804f0c7f978f46b8ea2aca0044f",
  "status": "draft",
  "scope": {
    "text": "Synthetic value"
  },
  "category": [
    {
      "text": "Synthetic value"
    }
  ]
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate Consent --seed 20260722.

Validation context

  • strict pidgeon validate grades a Consent 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)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup Consent

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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Published by Pattern Engine LLC (Pidgeon Health).

Rendered from the same machine-readable definitions the Pidgeon engine validates against. Exported from the Pidgeon engine's FHIR R4 definitions (CC0); example generated with seed 20260722.