Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Persuasive
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Medium
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FHIR Core (FHIR)
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R5
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Patient Administration
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Encounter
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FHIR-32390 Suggest renaming 'hospitalization' to 'admission'
Description
Encounter.hospitalization - definition: "Details about the admission to a healthcare service"
The concept "hospitalization" has semantic meaning of "admission to a hospital for a consecutive period of 24 hours or more for in-patient treatment"
There are many use cases/scenarios in which the admission is not necessarily to a hospital.
Examples include: admission to skilled nursing facility, admission to aged-care facility, admission to hospice care facility
Suggest rename Encounter.hospitalization to Encounter.admission to support broader use cases than hospital care
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Issue Links
- duplicates
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FHIR-32390 Suggest renaming 'hospitalization' to 'admission'
- Published
- relates to
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FHIR-39148 Encounter - separate admission & discharge information?
- Published