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ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode - XML Representation

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<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="v3-ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode"/>
  <language value="en"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><h2>ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode</h2><div><p>**Definition:**A comprehensive term for health care provided in a healthcare facility (e.g. a practitioneraTMs office, clinic setting, or hospital) on a nonresident basis. The term ambulatory usually implies that the patient has come to the location and is not assigned to a bed. Sometimes referred to as an outpatient encounter.</p>
</div><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href="CodeSystem-v3-ActCode.html"><code>http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode</code></a><table class="none"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td></tr><tr><td><a href="CodeSystem-v3-ActCode.html#v3-ActCode-AMB">AMB</a></td><td>ambulatory</td><td>A comprehensive term for health care provided in a healthcare facility (e.g. a practitioneraTMs office, clinic setting, or hospital) on a nonresident basis. The term ambulatory usually implies that the patient has come to the location and is not assigned to a bed. Sometimes referred to as an outpatient encounter.</td></tr></table></li></ul></div>
  </text>
  <url value="http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20356"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="2.0.0"/>
  <name value="ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode"/>
  <title value="ActAmbulatoryEncounterCode"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <date value="2014-03-26T00:00:00-04:00"/>
  <description
               value="**Definition:**A comprehensive term for health care provided in a healthcare facility (e.g. a practitioneraTMs office, clinic setting, or hospital) on a nonresident basis. The term ambulatory usually implies that the patient has come to the location and is not assigned to a bed. Sometimes referred to as an outpatient encounter."/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="AMB"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>