Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Not 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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8.11.4
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Brian Postlethwaite / Ming Dunajick : 4-0-0
Description
Encounter has three timing related fields: actualPeriod, plannedStartDate and plannedEndDate.
These fields were introduced in FHIR-3251.
The rationale was that the difference between the period in which the encounter was planned and occurred should become clearer.
Although I agree with this remark the resolution can be improved.
The planned start and end date contain valid information but would be better represented as a Period. I propose to change these fields to Encounter.plannedPeriod.
The namechange from Encounter.period to Encounter.actualPeriod is not needed and will make future migrations from R4 data more complex. I propose to reverse that name change.
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Issue Links
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FHIR-32351 Encounter.period should talk about estimated end date
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