MedicationAdministration

Administration of medication to a patient.

Describes the event of a patient consuming or otherwise being administered a medication. This may be as simple as swallowing a tablet or it may be a long running infusion. Related resources tie this event to the authorizing prescription, and the specific encounter between patient and health care practitioner.

Type of medication usage.

Encounter or Episode of Care administered as part of.

Instantiates protocol or definition.

Device used to administer.

Details of how medication was taken.

Start and end time of administration.

Start and end time of administration.

A list of events of interest in the lifecycle.

External identifier.

What was administered.

What was administered.

True if medication not administered.

Information about the administration.

Part of referenced event.

Who administered substance.

Request administration performed against.

Reason administration performed.

Reason administration not performed.

Condition or Observation that supports why the medication was administered.

Will generally be set to show that the administration has been completed. For some long running administrations such as infusions it is possible for an administration to be started but not completed or it may be paused while some other process is under way.

Who received medication.

Additional information to support administration.

Convenience initializer, taking all required properties as arguments.

Convenience initializer, taking all required properties as arguments.

Undocumented