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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": "f003", "text": { "status": "generated", "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative: Encounter</b><a name=\"f003\"> </a></p><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Resource Encounter "f003" </p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: id: v6751 (OFFICIAL)</p><p><b>status</b>: completed</p><p><b>class</b>: ambulatory <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-v3-ActCode.html\">ActCode</a>#AMB)</span></p><p><b>priority</b>: Non-urgent ear, nose and throat admission <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#103391001)</span></p><p><b>type</b>: Patient-initiated encounter <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#270427003)</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a href=\"patient-example-f001-pieter.html\">Patient/f001: P. van de Heuvel</a> "Pieter VAN DE HEUVEL"</p><p><b>serviceProvider</b>: <a href=\"organization-example-f001-burgers.html\">Organization/f001</a> "Burgers University Medical Center"</p><h3>Participants</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Actor</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td><a href=\"practitioner-example-f001-evdb.html\">Practitioner/f001: E.M. van den Broek</a> "Eric VAN DEN BROEK"</td></tr></table><h3>Lengths</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Value</b></td><td><b>Unit</b></td><td><b>System</b></td><td><b>Code</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>90</td><td>min</td><td><a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/3.1.0/CodeSystem-v3-ucum.html\">Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)</a></td><td>min</td></tr></table><h3>Reasons</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>Concept</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>Retropharyngeal abscess <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#18099001)</span></td></tr></table><h3>Admissions</h3><table class=\"grid\"><tr><td>-</td><td><b>PreAdmissionIdentifier</b></td><td><b>AdmitSource</b></td><td><b>DischargeDisposition</b></td></tr><tr><td>*</td><td>id: 93042 (OFFICIAL)</td><td><span title=\" <preAdmissionTest>\n <coding>\n <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>\n <code value="168719007"/>\n <display value="Neck soft tissue X-ray"/>\n </coding>\n <coding>\n <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>\n <code value="396550006"/>\n <display value="Blood test"/>\n </coding>\n </preAdmissionTest> \">Referral by physician <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#305956004)</span></span></td><td>Discharge to home <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#306689006)</span></td></tr></table></div>" }, "identifier": [ { "use": "official", "system": "http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/encounters", "value": "v6751" } ], "status": "completed", "class": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode", "code": "AMB", "display": "ambulatory" } ] } ], "priority": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "103391001", "display": "Non-urgent ear, nose and throat admission" } ] }, "type": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "270427003", "display": "Patient-initiated encounter" } ] } ], "subject": { "reference": "Patient/f001", "display": "P. van de Heuvel" }, "serviceProvider": { "reference": "Organization/f001" }, "participant": [ { "actor": { "reference": "Practitioner/f001", "display": "E.M. van den Broek" } } ], "length": { "value": 90, "unit": "min", "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org", "code": "min" }, "reason": [ { "concept": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "18099001", "display": "Retropharyngeal abscess" } ] } } ], "admission": { "preAdmissionIdentifier": { "use": "official", "system": "http://www.bmc.nl/zorgportal/identifiers/pre-admissions", "value": "93042" }, "admitSource": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "305956004", "display": "Referral by physician" } ] }, "dischargeDisposition": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://snomed.info/sct", "code": "306689006", "display": "Discharge to home" } ] } } }
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.