AU Base Implementation Guide
5.0.0 - Working Standard Australia flag

This page is part of the Australian Base IG (v5.0.0: R4) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Example Patient: Patient - with Birth Date Accuracy Indicator of AAU

Page standards status: Informative

This example demonstrates birth date and deceased date with an accurate day, month and unknown year.

Note that "0000-08-23" is a NOT a valid FHIR date.

Details include:

  • A valid FHIR date example for birth date and deceased date is "2004-08-23” but not "0000-08-23".
  • A date accuracy indicator of "AAU" indicates that day and month are accurate but year is unknown.
  • When a code value contains "A", the corresponding date components (individual or combination) for birth or deceased dates must be accurate.
  • When a code value contains "U", the corresponding date components (individual or combination) for birth or deceased dates must be ignored.