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.
Mapped Concepts in HIEBus
- MedicationAdministration
- MedicationProfile
Supported Interactions
Medication Administration resources support the following interactions.
Search Parameters
When searching for Medication Administration resources, the following search parameters are supported.
| Name | Type | Prefixes
Modifiers |
Can be Chained? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _count | Special | The maximum number of resources to return in a result page. | ||
| _elements | Special | Used to request a specific set of elements be returned as part of a resource. | ||
| _id | Token | Resource id. | ||
| _lastUpdated | Date | lt le gt ge | When the resource last changed. | |
| _source | Uri | :missing | Where the resource comes from. | |
| _summary | Special | Used to return only a portion of the resouces. Defaults to 'false', which returns the whole resource. | ||
| _total | Special | Use the value 'estimate' to populate the result bundle's 'total' element with an estimate of the matching number of resources. | ||
| 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. |
Sortable Parameters
When searching Medication Administration resources, it is possible to sort the returned values by the following search parameters.
- effective-time
- _id
Only one sort parameter may be specified.
Supported Includes
When searching Medication Administration resources, it is possible to include the resources referenced by the following field names.
- Context
- Encounter
- Patient
- Performer
- Provenance Agent
- Request
- Subject
