---
type: "search-params"
title: "Goal Search Parameters"
resource: "Goal"
---
# Goal Search Parameters

<a id="achievement-status"></a>

## achievement-status
**Description:** in-progress | improving | worsening | no-change | achieved | sustaining | not-achieved | no-progress | not-attainable

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.achievementStatus

**Path:** Goal.achievementStatus

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-achievement-status


<a id="category"></a>

## category
**Description:** E.g. Treatment, dietary, behavioral, etc.

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.category

**Path:** Goal.category

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-category


<a id="description"></a>

## description
**Description:** Code or text describing goal

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.description

**Path:** Goal.description

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-description


<a id="identifier"></a>

## identifier
**Description:** External Ids for this goal

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.identifier

**Path:** Goal.identifier

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-identifier


<a id="lifecycle-status"></a>

## lifecycle-status
**Description:** proposed | planned | accepted | active | on-hold | completed | cancelled | entered-in-error | rejected

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.lifecycleStatus

**Path:** Goal.lifecycleStatus

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-lifecycle-status


<a id="patient"></a>

## patient
**Description:** Who this goal is intended for

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Goal.subject.where(resolve() is Patient)

**Path:** Goal.subject

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-patient


<a id="start-date"></a>

## start-date
**Description:** When goal pursuit begins

**Type:** date

**Expression:** (Goal.start.ofType(date))

**Path:** Goal.startDate

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-start-date


<a id="subject"></a>

## subject
**Description:** Who this goal is intended for

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Goal.subject

**Path:** Goal.subject

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-subject


<a id="target-date"></a>

## target-date
**Description:** Reach goal on or before

**Type:** date

**Expression:** (Goal.target.due.ofType(date))

**Path:** Goal.target.dueDate

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-target-date


<a id="addresses"></a>

## addresses
**Description:** Issues addressed by this goal

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Goal.addresses

**Path:** Goal.addresses

**Standards Status:** normative


<a id="target-measure"></a>

## target-measure
**Description:** The parameter whose value is being tracked

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Goal.target.measure

**Path:** Goal.target.measure

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Goal-target-measure