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This operation takes a meta, and deletes the profiles, tags, and security labels found in it from the nominated resource.
The canonical URL for this operation definition is
http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/Resource-meta-delete
Formal Definition (as a OperationDefinition).
URL: [base]/[Resource]/[id]/$meta-delete
This is not an idempotent operation
Profiles, tags, and security labels to delete from the existing resource. It is not an error if these tags, profiles, and labels do not exist. The identity of a tag or security label is the system+code. When matching existing tags during deletion, version and display are ignored. For profiles, matching is based on the full URL
Resulting meta for the resource
Request: Remove the 'current patient' tag from a resource
POST /fhir/Patient/example/$meta-delete [Other headers] <Parameters xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <parameter> <name value="meta"/> <valueMeta> <tag> <system value="http://example.org/codes/tags"/> <code value="current"/> <display value="Current Inpatient"/> </tag> </valueMeta> </parameter> </Parameters>
Response: All the tags, profiles, and security labels used on patient resources
HTTP/1.1 200 OK [other headers] <Parameters xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> <parameter> <name value="return"/> <valueMeta> <profile value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/daf-patient"/> <tag> <system value="http://example.org/codes/tags"/> <code value="record-lost"/> <display value="Patient File Lost"/> </tag> </valueMeta> </parameter> </Parameters>
For more information about operations, including how they are invoked, see Operations.