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title: "Facade RelatedPerson"
canonical: "https://wiki.patientsknowbest.com/space/api/3365077486/Facade%20RelatedPerson"
format: markdown
---
[https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/relatedperson.html](https://www.hl7.org/fhir/STU3/relatedperson.html)

## Overview

A PKB [[Patient]] is represented as a FHIR Patient resource.

However, when acting as a carer to someone else they will be represented as a FHIR RelatedPerson resource, in order to distinguish them from the patient receiving care.

## Relevant PKB entities

- [[[Patient]]](https://pkbdev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/api/pages/3363700789/Data+Model#Patient-%26-Contact)

## Mappings

| **FHIR** | **PKB** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Resource id | N/A |  |
| RelatedPerson.patient | - patient: Reference
  - reference = the relative URL of the Patient resource
  - display = [[User.Title]] [[User.Given Name]] [[User.Family Name]] |  |
| RelatedPerson.name | - name: HumanName
  - family = [[User.Family Name]]
  - given[0] = [[User.Given Name]]
  - prefix[0] = [[User.Title]] |  |