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How to determine admission source and discharge destination? #6

Open mellesies opened 2 months ago

mellesies commented 2 months ago

For the multiple use-cases it is important we can determine where a patient came from (i.e. from home or another hospital), where the patient went after discharge, or if the patient died during the admission. FHIR offers the attributes Encounter.hospitalization.admitSource and Encounter.hospitalization.dischargeDisposition for this purpose.

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