| DESCRIPTION |
This file contains a record of all patient visits at health care facilities or
by health care providers, including direct outpatient and clinic visits, as
well as inpatient encounters with providers of care. All other visit related
files, such as purpose of visit (diagnoses), operative procedures,
immunizations, examinations, etc., will point to a visit in this file. The
records are maintained by date/time of visit, and the patient name field is a
pointer to the IHS Patient file, where the patient must exist before data can
be added here.
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