Update a medical encounter
Safety module
PATCH/medical-encounters/{id}medicalEncounters.update
A medical encounter. Notes are Restricted, encrypted and never sent to a model. Updates the fields sent; omitted fields are unchanged. Requires `If-Match` with the current `ETag`: a stale tag returns 412 and a missing tag returns 428.
- Requires the capability safety.incident.write.
- OAuth scopes: safety.
- Send If-Match with the ETag you read. A stale tag returns 412; a missing tag returns 428.
- Error statuses: 400, 401, 404, 412, 422, 428, 429. Errors are RFC 9457 problem details.
Path and query parameters
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the medical encounter. |
Request body: MedicalEncounterUpdate
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| patient_description | string | No | Who was treated, without identifying medical detail.Constraints: length 1 to 300 |
| treatment_notes | string | null | No | Treatment given. Restricted.Constraints: length 1 to 20000 |
| disposition | string | null | No | Outcome, such as released or transported.Constraints: length 1 to 300 |
{
"patient_description": "Guest, adult",
"treatment_notes": "Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.",
"disposition": "Released"
}Response 200: MedicalEncounter
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the medical encounter. |
| org_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the owning organization, derived from the parent row and never accepted from the caller. |
| created_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was created. |
| created_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the person who created the row; null when a seed, platform or system process created it. |
| updated_at | string (date-time) | Yes | When the row was last updated. |
| updated_by | string (uuid) | null | Yes | Identifier of the person who last updated the row; null when a seed, platform or system process updated it. |
| incident_id | string (uuid) | Yes | Identifier of the incident. |
| patient_description | string | Yes | Who was treated, without identifying medical detail.Constraints: length 1 to 300 |
| treatment_notes | string | null | Yes | Treatment given. Restricted.Constraints: length 1 to 20000 |
| disposition | string | null | Yes | Outcome, such as released or transported.Constraints: length 1 to 300 |
{
"id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"org_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"created_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"created_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"updated_at": "2026-10-08T14:30:00Z",
"updated_by": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"incident_id": "0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f",
"patient_description": "Guest, adult",
"treatment_notes": "Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.",
"disposition": "Released"
}Code samples
curl -X PATCH "$XOS_BASE_URL/medical-encounters/0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XOS_API_KEY" \
-H 'If-Match: W/"etag-from-your-last-read"' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"patient_description":"Guest, adult","treatment_notes":"Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.","disposition":"Released"}'const { data, etag } = await xos.medicalEncounters.update("0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", {
"patient_description": "Guest, adult",
"treatment_notes": "Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.",
"disposition": "Released"
}, { ifMatch: etag });response = xos.medical_encounters.update("0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f", {"patient_description": "Guest, adult", "treatment_notes": "Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.", "disposition": "Released"}, if_match=etag)xos medical-encounters update 0192f1e2-7c3a-7b4d-9e8f-1a2b3c4d5e6f --data '{"patient_description":"Guest, adult","treatment_notes":"Abrasion to the left knee, cleaned and dressed.","disposition":"Released"}' --if-match auto