Resources share what set of characteristics? (3 items)

• A. A common set of metadata
• B. A Human Readable Part
• C. All three items
• D. A common way to define and represent them, built from data types that define common reusable patterns of elements

Answer: (C)

Resources in FHIR share a common foundation: a standard metadata portion, a human-readable narrative, and a uniform way to define and represent data using reusable data types. The metadata portion gives consistent information about the resource’s identity and provenance (such as versioning and tagging), enabling tracking and governance across systems. The Human Readable Part provides a narrative that can be displayed to users, ensuring readability even when machine-readable data isn’t shown. The design also sticks to a common approach for defining and representing data, built from standardized data types and reusable element patterns so every resource follows the same structural rules and can be extended in a controlled, interoperable way. Because all three characteristics are present in every resource, resources share all three items.