any professional interchange between a patient and one or more members of a health care team One or more problems or diagnoses may be identified at each encounter Analyses of encounter data should distinguish encounters from problems
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth
An encounter is a term that applies to any 2-body interaction Although collision and encounter are often used interchangeably, a collision usually refers explicitly to a close or strong encounter
come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
A face-to-face meeting between a covered person and a health care provider where services are provided or rendered
A contact between an individual and the health care system for a health care service or set of services related to one or more medical conditions
contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
An adventure is split into a number of individual encounters Each encounter starts when "Time-In!" is called, and ends when "Time-Out!" is called, and usually takes place in a different part of both Shotover OoC and the gameworld IC