# Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care
## Discharge Summary Release 0.02

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The content of this release is not comprehensive and is not fully validated and must not be used in live system implementations.
# ELEMENT Constrained Domain Model: DischargeMethod
A constrained ELEMENT to represent the method by which the subject of care was discharged from a hospital provider spell. A Hospital Provider Spell is the total continuous stay of a subject of care using a Hospital Bed on premises controlled by a Health Care Provider during which medical care is provided. The Hospital Provider Spell starts when a Consultant, Nurse or Midwife assumes responsibility for care following the decision to admit the subject of care. This may be before formal admission procedures have been completed and the subject of care transferred to a ward. For example, if a subject of care is brought into hospital as an emergency and dies in the operating theatre before being transferred to a ward, the Hospital Provider Spell would have started1. 1Data Dictionary: Discharge Method and Hospital Provider Spell ## Specializes ## UnboundData ## Attributes
Name | Data type | Occurs | Description | Value constraints
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
name | SC | 1..1 | The name, expressed as a coded value or as plain text, specifies the clinical or administrative concept to which this EHR node corresponds, as labelled in the EHR system in which it was first committed. |
value
Literal value(s): UNBOUND_DATA_ELEMENT
rc_id | II.Uuid | 1..1 | The globally-unique identifier by which this node in the EHR hierarchy is referenced in the EHR system to which the data were first committed. This identifier shall be retained by the EHR Recipient and re-used whenever this RECORD_COMPONENT is subsequently included in another EHR_EXTRACT. |
synthesised | BL | 1..1 | This attribute value shall be TRUE if this RECORD_COMPONENT has been created in order to comply with this standard , but this point in the EHR hierarchy has no corresponding node in the EHR from which it was extracted. |
value
Default value: false
obs_time | IVL_TS | 0..1 | The date and time, or interval, in which the unbound data applied. |
value | ANY | 1..1 | Represents the unbound data. |
## Component Relationships ### Object Relationships
Subject Class | Name | Occurs | Dependency | Specified by
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
DischargeEvent | HasContext | 0..1 | INDEPENDENT | DischargeEvent
## Item of ENTRY Constrained Domain Models ### DischargeDetails ## Reference Model Type ## UNBOUND_DATA_ELEMENT