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Table 1.

Different scenarios of patient clinical encounters on a single day

Daily event		Medical scenario	Diagnosis record^a
Single visit on a single day	(i) Single diagnosis	A patient went to see a primary care doctor and received a single diagnosis.	01/01/2019^b: Influenza
Single visit on a single day	(ii) Multiple diagnoses	A patient went to see a primary care doctor and received multiple diagnoses.	01/01/2018: Influenza \| Pneumonia
Multiple visits on a single day	(iii) Single and same diagnosis for multiple visits	A patient went to see a primary care doctor and then got transferred to Emergency Room immediately.	01/01/2019: Acute myocarditis
	(iii) Single and same diagnosis for multiple visits		01/01/2019: Acute myocarditis
	(iv) Multiple diagnoses for multiple visits	A patient went to see a primary care doctor for flu. He also visited an endocrinologist for a routine follow-up for type II diabetes.	01/01/2019: Influenza with pneumonia \| Acute myocarditis
	(iv) Multiple diagnoses for multiple visits		01/01/2019: Type II diabetes \| Benign essential hypertension

^aFor better readability, the diagnosis codes are not listed

^b01/01/2019 is a hypothetical date used for illustrative purpose