How to store certain information for which there is no FHIR resource

I want to store generic list of complaints(fever,cold), there is condition resource which I can use but it has subject as mandatory element. Because of this limitation I can’t use it.
So how can we store certain information for which there is no FHIR resource defined?

Why don’y you have a subject? are you dealing with deidentified data?

If you’re just interested in representing ‘kinds’ of conditions, the simplest is CodeSystem or ValueSet. If you want more information than that, R5 offers ConditionDefinition. If you need to use R4, you could pre-adopt the concept of ConditionDefinition using Basic.

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Thank you so much @lloyd for suggesting these useful resources. I have decided to choose the CodeSystem as it seems to the simplest one. Again, thanks !

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