DocumentReference should have a reference to Encounter

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    • Type: Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive
    • Priority: Medium
    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • DSTU1 [deprecated]
    • Structured Documents
    • STU
    • DocumentReference
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    • Calvin Beebe / Brett Marquard: 29-0-2
    • Enhancement
    • Compatible, substantive
    • DSTU1 [deprecated]

      There's a large number of `context` options provided in `DocumentReference.context`, including "event", "period", "facilityType", and "practiceSetting" (probably too many options). But there's no clear way to link a DocumentReference to the encounter that its document is documenting.

      In theory, `DocumentReference.context.related.ref` could be used this way to point to an Encounter, but sthe desired semantics aren't clear ("this document is documenting this encounter"), and this kind of catch-all reference is a troubling pattern because it will lead to proliferation of incompatible modeling choices.

      (If `context.related` does remain, I'd recommend changing it to `related[x]` with allowed types of `Reference` and `Identifier`. But I'd rather just see more specific relations defined.)

      (Note that if the structures do survive, I'd at least like to see the name `ref` changed to avoid the abbreviation.)

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            Reporter:
            Josh Mandel
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