# CSIRO STARS Specimen Profile - STARS Implementation Guide v0.5.1

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **CSIRO STARS Specimen Profile**

## Resource Profile: CSIRO STARS Specimen Profile 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-specimen | *Version*:0.5.1 |
| Active as of 2025-10-15 | *Computable Name*:CsiroStarsSpecimenProfile |

 
A specimen / sample 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [CSIRO STARS ServiceRequest Profile](StructureDefinition-csiro-stars-servicerequest.md) and [CSIRO STARS Specimen Profile](StructureDefinition-csiro-stars-specimen.md)
* Examples for this Profile: [Specimen/specimen-example-bat](Specimen-specimen-example-bat.md) and [Specimen/specimen-example](Specimen-specimen-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/csiro.stars|current/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-specimen)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-csiro-stars-specimen.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-csiro-stars-specimen.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-csiro-stars-specimen.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "csiro-stars-specimen",
  "url" : "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-specimen",
  "version" : "0.5.1",
  "name" : "CsiroStarsSpecimenProfile",
  "title" : "CSIRO STARS Specimen Profile",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2025-10-15T22:25:59+11:00",
  "publisher" : "ACDP Informatics CSIRO",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "ACDP Informatics CSIRO",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "https://starsapi.csiro.au"
        },
        {
          "system" : "email",
          "value" : "stars-support@csiro.au"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "A specimen / sample",
  "fhirVersion" : "5.0.0",
  "mapping" : [
    {
      "identity" : "w5",
      "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
      "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
    },
    {
      "identity" : "rim",
      "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
      "name" : "RIM Mapping"
    },
    {
      "identity" : "v2",
      "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v2",
      "name" : "HL7 V2 Mapping"
    }
  ],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "Specimen",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Specimen",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [
      {
        "id" : "Specimen",
        "path" : "Specimen"
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.identifier",
        "path" : "Specimen.identifier",
        "mustSupport" : true
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.identifier.type",
        "path" : "Specimen.identifier.type",
        "binding" : {
          "strength" : "required",
          "valueSet" : "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/ValueSet/stars-identifiertype-value-set"
        }
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.type",
        "path" : "Specimen.type",
        "mustSupport" : true,
        "binding" : {
          "strength" : "required",
          "valueSet" : "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/ValueSet/specimen-type-value-set"
        }
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.subject",
        "path" : "Specimen.subject",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "Reference",
            "targetProfile" : [
              "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-patient",
              "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Group",
              "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Location"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.receivedTime",
        "path" : "Specimen.receivedTime",
        "max" : "0"
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.parent",
        "path" : "Specimen.parent",
        "type" : [
          {
            "extension" : [
              {
                "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-hierarchy",
                "valueBoolean" : true
              }
            ],
            "code" : "Reference",
            "targetProfile" : [
              "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-specimen"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.request",
        "path" : "Specimen.request",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "Reference",
            "targetProfile" : [
              "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-servicerequest"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.collection.extension",
        "path" : "Specimen.collection.extension",
        "slicing" : {
          "discriminator" : [
            {
              "type" : "value",
              "path" : "url"
            }
          ],
          "ordered" : false,
          "rules" : "open"
        }
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.collection.extension:location",
        "path" : "Specimen.collection.extension",
        "sliceName" : "location",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "1",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "Extension",
            "profile" : [
              "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/specimen-collection-location"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "mustSupport" : true
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.collection.collector",
        "path" : "Specimen.collection.collector",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "Reference",
            "targetProfile" : [
              "https://starsapi.csiro.au/fhir-ig/stars/StructureDefinition/csiro-stars-practitioner"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.collection.collected[x]",
        "path" : "Specimen.collection.collected[x]",
        "slicing" : {
          "discriminator" : [
            {
              "type" : "type",
              "path" : "$this"
            }
          ],
          "ordered" : false,
          "rules" : "open"
        }
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.collection.collected[x]:collectedDateTime",
        "path" : "Specimen.collection.collected[x]",
        "sliceName" : "collectedDateTime",
        "min" : 0,
        "max" : "1",
        "type" : [
          {
            "code" : "dateTime"
          }
        ],
        "mustSupport" : true
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.processing",
        "path" : "Specimen.processing",
        "mustSupport" : true
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.condition",
        "path" : "Specimen.condition",
        "mustSupport" : true
      },
      {
        "id" : "Specimen.note",
        "path" : "Specimen.note",
        "mustSupport" : true
      }
    ]
  }
}

```
