Standard Field Names

API teams are free to name fields as they see fit; however, to promote consistency across APIs, consider using names from the table below for fields with concepts similar to your own.

Name	Type	Description
icn	string	A Master Person Index (MPI) Integration Control Number
birlsId	string	Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator (Sub)System Identifier
edipi	string	A Department of Defense (DoD) Electronic Data Interchange Personal Identifier
mhvId	string	My HealtheVet Identifier
secId	string	EAuth Universally Unique Identifier
vet360Id	string	A VA Profile Vet360 Identifier
createDate	datetime	The datetime a resource was created
updateDate	datetime	The datetime a resource was updated
deleteDate	datetime	The datetime a resource was (soft) deleted
startDate	datetime	The beginning of a datetime range
endDate	datetime	The end of a datetime range
page	integer	The current paginated page
pageSize	integer	The number of items in a paginated page
totalSize	integer	The total of number of items regardless of pagination
first	string	The first page of a paginated list
last	string	The last page of a paginated list
prev	string	The previous page of a paginated list
next	string	The next page of a paginated list
filter	string	How a list is filtered (for example, filter=createDate>2012-08-17T21:51:08Z)
sort	string	How a list is sorted (for example, sort=age,name)