PractitionerRole contains information relevant to all providers, not just people practitioners and constraining to people only limits the ability to provide accurate provider information to consumers.

Not all providers are people and while groups of people need to have at least one practitioner in the group, facilities may not have any practitioners affiliated with them.

Existing Wording:

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Cardinality for PractitionerRole to Practitioner 1..1

Proposed Wording:

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Cardinality for PractitionerRole to Practitioner 0..1