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Patient Administration Work Group | Maturity Level: N/A | Standards Status: Informative | Compartments: Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson |
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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><div><p>Resource "f002" </p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: id: v3251 (OFFICIAL)</p><p><b>status</b>: finished</p><p><b>class</b>: ambulatory (Details: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode code AMB = 'ambulatory', stated as 'ambulatory')</p><p><b>type</b>: Patient-initiated encounter <span> (<a>SNOMED CT</a>#270427003)</span></p><p><b>priority</b>: Urgent <span> (<a>SNOMED CT</a>#103391001)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Patient/f001: P. van de Heuvel</a> "Pieter VAN DE HEUVEL"</p><h3>Participants</h3><table><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Individual</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td><a>Practitioner/f003: M.I.M Versteegh</a> "Marc VERSTEEGH"</td></tr></table><p><b>reasonCode</b>: Partial lobectomy of lung <span> (<a>SNOMED CT</a>#34068001)</span></p><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>Referral by radiologist <span> (<a>SNOMED CT</a>#305997006)</span></td><td>Discharge to home <span> (<a>SNOMED CT</a>#306689006)</span></td></tr></table><p><b>serviceProvider</b>: <a>Organization/f001: BMC</a> "Burgers University Medical Center"</p></div>" }, "identifier": [ { "use": "official", "system": "http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/encounters", "value": "v3251" } ], "status": "finished", "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" }, "reasonCode": [ { "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.