Where to Map Patient Notes

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Hi,

We are working on a project that admits a Patient and we are using FHIR R4.
We have a scenario where Patient provides certain information or notes.

Patient does not have any field today that could accommodate Notes similar to Observation to Store Annotations.

Is there a way to accommodate this information(Notes) pertaining to Patient.
In HL7 v2 we have NTE segment that could accommodate this information.

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Typically patient notes are captured using either Observation or DocumentReference.

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Hi,

We’re using DocumentReference for sharing this kind of non structured notes in France.

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Thanks lloyd for the quick response, we will look at the option of using DocumentReference.

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Thanks meriem for the Response, we will look at the option of using DocumentReference