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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-34443

Suggest rename Encounter.hospitalization to Encounter.admission

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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • R5
    • Patient Administration
    • Encounter

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      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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            chuscmi Stephen Chu
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