A review of some of the key attributes concerned with identification of roles and entities.
| id | code | name | |
| General notes | An identifier for the role or entity. | A code indicating the nature of a role or entity. | The name of an entity. |
| SET<II> or II May be a DCE UUID or a national identifier. | CE or CV
| EN or ON or PN
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| id | code | name | |
| Agent | [1..2] MANDATORY | OPTIONAL | N/A |
| Mandatory A DCE UUID identifying an instance of a role. The identifier applies to a unique combination of a coded role played by an specified (and identified) person, organization or device which is scoped by another person or organisation. Optional Where the agent is a GP not on SDS, a second repeat may be present to provide the national GP code. | A code identifying the nature of the role. E.g. "General practitioner", "Hospital", "Paediatrics department", "ECG machine" | ||
| AgentSDS | [2..2] MANDATORY | N/A | N/A |
| Mandatory A DCE UUID identifying an instance of a role. The identifier applies to a unique combination of a coded role played by an specified (and identified) person, organization or device which is scoped by another person or organisation. Mandatory SDS role profile ID. | |||
| AgentRef | [1..1] MANDATORY | NOT USED | N/A |
| The DCE UUID of the Agent Role defined elsewhere (e.g. as a Role Directory entry). | |||
| Person This only applies to Person in the role of an agent. It does not apply to other uses of Person such as Person in the role of Patient | NOT USED | NOT USED | OPTIONAL |
| The name should be given where possible. | |||
| PersonSDS | [1..1] MANDATORY | N/A | N/A |
| SDS user ID. | |||
| Organization | [0..1] OPTIONAL | OPTIONAL | OPTIONAL |
A national identifier for the organisation (e.g. an OCS identifier). This should be included where available. In this case the root element of the identifier is an OID identifying the identification scheme and the extension element is the national number. | A code identifying the type of organization. E.g. "NHS Trust" Note that an organisation may perform different roles. The type of organisation is however constant for a given organisation. If the code is not present, a description shall be given in the desc element. | Name of the organisation. This shall be given where an organization id is not given | |
| OrganizationSDS | [1..1] MANDATORY | N/A | N/A |
| SDS organization ID. | |||
| Device | [0..1] OPTIONAL | OPTIONAL | OPTIONAL |
An alternative identifier for the device may be included where relevant. The root element must be an OID specifying the source identification scheme. | A code identifying the type of device. | Name of the device. A name shall be included if a device id is not given. | |
| DeviceSDS | [1..1] MANDATORY | N/A | N/A |
| SDS Device ID. | |||