Medication ( DomainResource) Business identifier for this medicationidentifier : Identifier A code (or set of codes) that specify this medication, or a textual description if no code is available. Powder | tablets | capsule + SNOMED CT Form Codes ( Example) 11.5.3ĭefinition of a Medication Elements defined in Ancestors: id, meta, implicitRules, language, text, contained, extension, modifierExtensionĬodes that identify this medication SNOMED CT Medication Codes ( Example)Īctive | inactive | entered-in-error Medication Status Codes ( Required) This resource does not implement any patterns. This resource is referenced by ActivityDefinition, AdverseEvent, CarePlan, CatalogEntry, ChargeItem, ChargeItemDefinition, ClinicalUseDefinition, DiagnosticReport, Flag, Group, itself, MedicationAdministration, MedicationDispense, MedicationKnowledge, MedicationRequest, MedicationStatement, Observation, Procedure, SupplyDelivery and SupplyRequest. A package has a container (vacuum packed box, jar, etc.) and a list of the products or other packages that are in the package. When a medication includes a package, further details about the composition can be provided.
In this case there will be multiple ingredients which are typically base chemicals (for example, hydrocortisone powder) and there may be other ingredients that are manufactured products (for example, Glaxal Base). The Medication resource can be used to describe a compounded (aka extemporaneous or magistral) product that is manufactured by the pharmacy at the time of dispensing. The medication will include the ingredient(s) and their strength(s) and the package can include the amount (for example, number of tablets, volume, etc.) that is contained in a particular container (for example, 100 capsules of Amoxicillin 500mg per bottle). The Medication resource allows for medications to be characterized by the form of the drug and the ingredient (or ingredients), as well as how it is packaged. In these cases, the ingredients of the medicine have to be specified together with the amount contained, though the Medication resource custom formulations) where the composition of a medicine must be represented. There are some occasions where it is necessary to identify slightly more detail, suchĪs when dispensing a package containing a particular medication requires identification both of the medicine and the package at once. To drug dictionaries by means of the codes they define.
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Provided for human verification, but a full representation of the details of composition and efficacy of the medicine is conveyed by referring Additional information about the medication is frequently Representing medications in the majority of healthcare settings is a matter of identifying an item from a list and then conveying a referenceįor the item selected either into a patient-related resource or to other applications.