How does quantity search param with range value work?

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Hi there,

In the Condition resource, abatement-age search parameter is a quantity type, but the expression Condition.abatement.as(Age) | Condition.abatement.as(Range) | Condition.abatement.as(Age) indicates that the value could be a range.

I couldn’t find any information about how the search should be handled in the quantity search param section (http://hl7.org/fhir/search.html#quantity) so I want to confirm the behavior to make.

If there is a document with abatement that has Range with low = 5 and high = 10, then if a search comes in with ?abatement-age=8 (for the sake of simplicity, assuming that the system and code would match), what would be the result? Since prefix is not specified, it’s implicitly set to EQ but I am not sure if it should match because 8 is within the range or it shouldn’t match because technically 8 does not equal to range of 5 to 10. What about other prefixes such as less than and greater than and what not?

Also, is the expression correct that it repeats the as(Age) twice?

Thanks!

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The search should return resources where the region allowed by the search parameter overlaps in any way with the range specified on the resource. So =8 should return the resource. That said, most searches will likely make use of the “le” and “ge” comparisons rather than exact values.

Repeating as twice seems odd. Please submit a change request for us to look at that and hopefully fix it.

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Thanks Lloyd. I opened issue https://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=14500&start=725.