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

<a id="activity"></a>

## activity
**Description:** Activity that occurred

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Provenance.activity

**Path:** Provenance.activity

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-activity


<a id="agent"></a>

## agent
**Description:** Who participated

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.agent.who

**Path:** Provenance.agent.who

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-agent


<a id="agent-role"></a>

## agent-role
**Description:** What the agents role was

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Provenance.agent.role

**Path:** Provenance.agent.role

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-agent-role


<a id="agent-type"></a>

## agent-type
**Description:** How the agent participated

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Provenance.agent.type

**Path:** Provenance.agent.type

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-agent-type


<a id="based-on"></a>

## based-on
**Description:** Reference to the service request.

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.basedOn

**Path:** Provenance.basedOn

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-based-on


<a id="encounter"></a>

## encounter
**Description:** Encounter related to the Provenance

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.encounter

**Path:** Provenance.encounter

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-encounter


<a id="entity"></a>

## entity
**Description:** Identity of entity

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.entity.what

**Path:** Provenance.entity.what

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-entity


<a id="location"></a>

## location
**Description:** Where the activity occurred, if relevant

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.location

**Path:** Provenance.location

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-location


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

## patient
**Description:** Where the activity involved patient data

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.patient

**Path:** Provenance.patient

**Standards Status:** normative

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


<a id="recorded"></a>

## recorded
**Description:** When the activity was recorded / updated

**Type:** date

**Expression:** Provenance.recorded

**Path:** Provenance.recorded

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-recorded


<a id="signature-type"></a>

## signature-type
**Description:** Indication of the reason the entity signed the object(s)

**Type:** token

**Expression:** Provenance.signature.type

**Path:** Provenance.signature.type

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-signature-type


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

## target
**Description:** Target Reference(s) (usually version specific)

**Type:** reference

**Expression:** Provenance.target

**Path:** Provenance.target

**Standards Status:** normative

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


<a id="when"></a>

## when
**Description:** When the activity occurred

**Type:** date

**Expression:** (Provenance.occurred.ofType(dateTime))

**Path:** Provenance.occurredDateTime

**Standards Status:** normative

**URL:** http://hl7.org/fhir/build/SearchParameter/Provenance-when