---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Patch Operation"
codesystem: "patch-operation"
---
# Patch Operation

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/patch-operation
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: PatchOperation
- **Title**: Patch Operation
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Codes identifying the valid FHIRPath patch operations.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| add | Add | Add content at the nominated location. |
| insert | Insert | Insert content at the nominated location. |
| delete | Delete | Delete content from the nominated location. |
| replace | Replace | Replace the content with the new content at the nominated location. |
| move | Move | Move content from one location to another. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="patch-operation"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="fhir"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="0"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/patch-operation"/>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="PatchOperation"/>
  <title value="Patch Operation"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Codes identifying the valid FHIRPath patch operations."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/patch-operation"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="add"/>
    <display value="Add"/>
    <definition value="Add content at the nominated location."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="insert"/>
    <display value="Insert"/>
    <definition value="Insert content at the nominated location."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="delete"/>
    <display value="Delete"/>
    <definition value="Delete content from the nominated location."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="replace"/>
    <display value="Replace"/>
    <definition value="Replace the content with the new content at the nominated location."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="move"/>
    <display value="Move"/>
    <definition value="Move content from one location to another."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```