An Encounter is an interaction between a patient and care provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare-related service(s). Healthcare services include health assessment. Examples: outpatient visit to multiple departments, home health support (including physical therapy), inpatient hospital stay, emergency room visit, field visit (e.g., traffic accident), office visit, occupational therapy, or telephone call.
Context
Parent nodes of template element with id 2.16.840.1.113883.10.22.4.40
Classification
CDA Entry Level Template
Open/Closed
Open (other than defined elements are allowed)
Used by / Uses
Used by 0 transactions and 2 templates, Uses 0 templates
The element if present points to the text describing the problem being recorded; including any dates, comments, et cetera. The contains a URI in value attribute. This URI points to the free text description of the problem in the document that is being described.