_text & _content

Full Text search by Narrative or Resource content

Full-text-search by resources is also at your disposal. It presents with the _text - search by narrative and _ __content - search by remaining the resource content.

GET /Patient?_text=John

GET /Patient?_content=New-York

Search results can be sorted by rank with the _score search-parameter value. More relevant results will be on top but in reversed order also supported through - prefix.

GET /Patient?_content=baz&_sort=-_score

Expressions

Full-text search requests supports grouping and logical operations

GET /Patient?_content=(NOT bar OR baz) AND foo

If you want to search by the phrase, just quote it

GET /Patient?_content="Mad Max"

Full-text search is a difficult query for the system. To improve performance, you can omit the number of entries in the results - use _total=none. More information in _total ( _totalMethod ).