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| Patient Administration Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson |
Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)
Real-world encounter example
{
"resourceType": "Encounter",
"id": "f002",
"text": {
"status": "generated",
"div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p><b>identifier</b>: id: v3251 (OFFICIAL)</p><p><b>status</b>: completed</p><p><b>class</b>: <span>ambulatory</span></p><p><b>type</b>: <span>Patient-initiated encounter</span></p><p><b>priority</b>: <span>Urgent</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>P. van de Heuvel. Generated Summary: id: 738472983 (USUAL), id: ?ngen-9? (USUAL); active; Pieter van de Heuvel ; Phone: 0648352638, p.heuvel@gmail.com; gender: male; birthDate: 1944-11-17; <span>Getrouwd</span>; multipleBirth</a></p><h3>Participants</h3><table><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Individual</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td><a>M.I.M Versteegh. Generated Summary: id: 846100293 (OFFICIAL), id: 243HID3RT938 (USUAL); Marc Versteegh (OFFICIAL); Phone: 0205562431, m.versteegh@bmc.nl, Fax: 0205662948; gender: male; birthDate: 1963-07-01; <span>Dutch</span></a></td></tr></table><h3>Lengths</h3><table><tr><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>*</td></tr></table><h3>Reasons</h3><table><tr><td>-</td></tr><tr><td>*</td></tr></table><h3>Hospitalizations</h3><table><tr><td>-</td><td><b>PreAdmissionIdentifier</b></td><td><b>AdmitSource</b></td><td><b>DischargeDisposition</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>id: 98682 (OFFICIAL)</td><td><span>Referral by radiologist</span></td><td><span>Discharge to home</span></td></tr></table><p><b>serviceProvider</b>: <a>BMC. Generated Summary: id: 91654 (OFFICIAL), id: 17-0112278 (USUAL); <span>University Medical Hospital</span>; name: Burgers University Medical Center; Phone: 022-655 2300</a></p></div>"
},
"identifier": [
{
"use": "official",
"system": "http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/encounters",
"value": "v3251"
}
],
"status": "completed",
"class": {
"system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode",
"code": "AMB",
"display": "ambulatory"
},
"type": [
{
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "270427003",
"display": "Patient-initiated encounter"
}
]
}
],
"priority": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "103391001",
"display": "Urgent"
}
]
},
"subject": {
"reference": "Patient/f001",
"display": "P. van de Heuvel"
},
"participant": [
{
"individual": {
"reference": "Practitioner/f003",
"display": "M.I.M Versteegh"
}
}
],
"length": {
"value": 140,
"unit": "min",
"system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
"code": "min"
},
"reason": [
{
"concept": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "34068001",
"display": "Partial lobectomy of lung"
}
]
}
}
],
"hospitalization": {
"preAdmissionIdentifier": {
"use": "official",
"system": "http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/pre-admissions",
"value": "98682"
},
"admitSource": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "305997006",
"display": "Referral by radiologist"
}
]
},
"dischargeDisposition": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "306689006",
"display": "Discharge to home"
}
]
}
},
"serviceProvider": {
"reference": "Organization/f001",
"display": "BMC"
}
}
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.