R4 Draft for Comment

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Compartment Encounter

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Ballot Status:Trial Use

Formal URI

http://hl7.org/fhir/compartment/Encounter

Description

The set of resources associated with a particular encounter

Identity

There is an instance of the encounter compartment for each encounter resource, and the identity of the compartment is the same as the encounter

Membership

The encounter compartment includes any resources where the resource has an explicitly nominated encounter, and some other resources that themselves link to resources in the encounter compartment. Note that for many resources, the exact nature of the link to encounter can be ambiguous (e.g. for a DiagnosticReport, is it the encounter when it was initiated, or when it was reported?)

Formal Definition

CompartmentDefinitionresource: XML or JSON

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

Resource

Inclusion Criteria

ChargeItem

context

Claim

encounter

ClinicalImpression

context