Medication Administration

A Medication Administration resource represents an instance of a medication being administered to a patient.

Overview

See the FHIR documentation for more information about Medication Administration resources.

Medication Administration resources support the following interactions.

When searching for Medication Administration resources, the following search parameters are supported.

Name	Type	Prefixes Modifiers	Can be Chained?	Description
_id	Token			Resource id.
_lastUpdated	Date	lt le gt ge		When the resource last changed.
_source	Uri	:missing		Where the resource comes from.
code	Token	:not :in :notin :missing		Return administrations of this medication code.
context	Reference	:missing	yes	Associated encounter.
effective-time	Date	ne lt le gt ge sa eb ap :missing		Date administration happened (or did not happen).
encounter	Reference	:missing	yes	Associated encounter.
not-given	Token	:not :in :notin :missing		See the HL7 FHIR documentation.
patient	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the MedicationAdministration is about.
performer	Reference	:missing	yes	The identity of the individual who administered the medication.
provenance-agent	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by provenance, specified by its author (aka originator) Organization.
reason-not-given	Token	:not :in :notin :missing		Reasons for not administering the medication.
request	Reference	:missing	yes	The identity of a request to list administrations from.
status	Token	:missing		MedicationAdministration event status (for example one of active/paused/completed/nullified).
subject	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the MedicationAdministration is about. Functionally identical to the "patient" search parameter.

When searching Medication Administration resources, it is possible to sort the returned values by the following search parameters.

Only one sort parameter may be specified.

When searching Medication Administration resources, it is possible to include the resources referenced by the following field names.