Definition

healthcare activity period without the involvement of the subject of care

 

This is a concrete item and can be implemented directly

Term: indirect healthcare activity period; 
Plural: indirect healthcare activity periods; 
Deprecated term: record contact; 

Notes

NOTE 1 In EN 13940-1:2007 the concept record contact was defined as 'contact restricted to the access to the professional health record of a subject of care by a healthcare professional for its management, out of the presence of that subject of care'.

Examples

EXAMPLE 1 The period where healthcare activities are performed without the presence of the subject of care in order to decide whether a referral or a demand for initial contact should be accepted or not

EXAMPLE 2 Time spent working on laboratory or tissue specimens taken from a subject of care

EXAMPLE 3 Period taken for the planning of care

Diagrammatic representation

Simple graph - indirect healthcare activity period

Required associations

Optional associations