STU3 Candidate

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Compartment Encounter

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 CompartmentDefinition resource: XML or JSON

Resource based membership rules:

The following resources may be in this compartment:

Resource Inclusion Criteria
ClinicalImpression context
Communication context
CommunicationRequest context
Composition encounter
Condition context
DeviceUseRequest encounter
DiagnosticReport encounter
DiagnosticRequest encounter
MedicationAdministration encounter
MedicationRequest context
NutritionRequest encounter
Observation encounter
Procedure encounter
ProcedureRequest encounter
QuestionnaireResponse context
RequestGroup encounter
VisionPrescription encounter

A resource is in this compartment if the nominated search parameter (or chain) refers to the patient resource that defines the compartment.

The following resources are never in this compartment:

See information about compartments .