Medication Request

A request to provide medication to a patient. Includes prescriptions, orders, and other general medication requests across different settings.

Overview

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

Medication Request resources support the following interactions.

When searching for Medication Request 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.
authoredon	Date	ne lt le gt ge sa eb ap :missing		Return prescriptions written on this date.
code	Token	:not :in :notin :missing		Return prescriptions of this medication code.
encounter	Reference	:missing	yes	Multiple Resources: * [MedicationRequest](medicationrequest.html): Return prescriptions with this encounter identifier.
identifier	Token	:missing		Return prescriptions with this external identifier.
intent	Token	:missing		Returns prescriptions with different intents.
patient	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the MedicationRequest is about.
provenance-agent	Reference	:missing	yes	Search by provenance, specified by its author (aka originator) Organization.
requester	Reference	:missing	yes	Returns prescriptions prescribed by this prescriber.
status	Token	:missing		Status of the prescription.
subject	Reference	:missing	yes	The patient the MedicationRequest is about. Functionally identical to the "patient" search parameter.

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

Only one sort parameter may be specified.

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