The EUPS may record several kinds of patient contacts, including parents, relatives, caregivers, and others related in some way to the patient. A patient contact may be an individual or an organization with a relationship to the patient, including health provider (person or organization) to be contacted in case of emergency.
The guardians of a patient shall be recorded in the <guardian> element beneath the /ClinicalDocument/recordTarget/patientRole/patient
XML - <patient> element. Other patient contacts such as the preferred health provider are described using the /ClinicalDocument/participant
structure. The <associatedEntity> element defines the type of contact. The classCode attribute shall be present, and contains a value from the set AGNT, CAREGIVER, ECON, NOK, or PRS to identify contacts that are agents of the patient, care givers, emergency contacts, next of kin, or other relations respectively.
The relationship between the patient and the guardian or other contact should be recorded in the <code> element. The code attribute is required and comes from the HL7 PersonalRelationshipRoleType vocabulary (epSOSPersonalRelationship value set).
The address of the guardian or other contact should be present, and shall be represented as any other address would be in CDA.
The phone number of the guardian or other contact should be present, and shall be represented as 480 any other phone number would be in CDA.
The name of the guardian or other contact shall be present, and shall be represented as any other name would be in CDA.
Healthcare Service Identification
The Healthcare Service Identification information is represented in structures under the /ClinicalDocument/author
XML element