 Administration
 AdministrationThis is Snapshot #3 for FHIR R5, released to support Connectathon 32. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions.
| 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: Encounter</b><a name=\"f002\"> </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 "f002" </p></div><p><b>identifier</b>: id: v3251 (use: 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/4.0.0/CodeSystem-v3-ActCode.html\">ActCode</a>#AMB)</span></p><p><b>priority</b>: Urgent <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: BMC</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-f003-mv.html\">Practitioner/f003: M.I.M Versteegh</a> "Marc VERSTEEGH"</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>140</td><td>min</td><td><a href=\"http://terminology.hl7.org/4.0.0/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>Partial lobectomy of lung <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#34068001)</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: 98682 (use: OFFICIAL)</td><td><span title=\"     <preAdmissionTest>\n            <coding>\n                <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>\n                <code value="399208008"/>\n                <display value="Chest 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 radiologist <span style=\"background: LightGoldenRodYellow; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid khaki\"> (<a href=\"https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/\">SNOMED CT</a>#305997006)</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" : "v3251"
  }],
  "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" : "Urgent"
    }]
  },
  "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",
    "display" : "BMC"
  },
  "participant" : [{
    "actor" : {
      "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"
      }]
    }
  }],
  "admission" : {
    "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"
      }]
    }
  }
}
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.
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