# How can paginate data in FHIR patiant api

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/how-can-paginate-data-in-fhir-patiant-api/24200>\
**Category:** Clinical Informatics\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/how-can-paginate-data-in-fhir-patiant-api/24200 "2025-01-03T05:38:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maitrak\_Nirmal](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/maitrak_nirmal/32/21108_2.png) [@Maitrak\_Nirmal](https://community.open-emr.org/u/Maitrak_Nirmal)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/how-can-paginate-data-in-fhir-patiant-api/24200/1 "2025-01-03T05:38:17Z")

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I am using /fhir/patiant api to get listing of patiants. I want to paginate data from this api. I am using \_count and \_size for pagination but i am getting total 0 record.

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**Author:** ![adunsulag](https://community.open-emr.org/user_avatar/community.open-emr.org/adunsulag/32/12606_2.png) [@adunsulag](https://community.open-emr.org/u/adunsulag)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/how-can-paginate-data-in-fhir-patiant-api/24200/2 "2025-01-06T13:23:23Z")

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We use \_offset not \_skip. You can see our configuration for sorting and pagination here:

> <https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/6c97865a0472068a2e116690e0967f0fbb7edc5a/src/Services/Search/SearchQueryConfig.php#L52>