{description: 'The Merge operation is used to request 2 patient resources be merged.\r\rThe target is the remaining patient resource (survivor), the source will be marked as inactive (or in some systems deleted)\r\rThe source-patient resource will be updated to add a new link reference to the target-patient resource (link-type=replaced-by), and also update the status to inactive (unless the resource was deleted)\r\rThe target-patient resource will be updated to add a new link reference to the source-patient resource (link-type=replaces) - and must be included in the result-patient parameter if used (if the source patient is deleted, then this link is not required)', package_name: hl7.fhir.r5.examples, name: Merge, type: 'true', package_version: 5.0.0-ballot, class: operation, kind: operation, url: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/OperationDefinition/Patient-merge', version: 5.0.0-ballot}