Stream: implementers
Topic: Grouped medication requests
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 06 2017 at 18:22):
Hi. How do we convey "give this medication for 5 mins at x ml/min, then increase the rate to y ml/min, then add this other medication to the mix...?
Regardless of the dosing changes, we need to group several medicationRequests. Is there a preferred way to do this? So far I found
a) medicationrequest.group Identifier is the same for all the requests. the client will use this to understand they are together.
b) we have a requestGroup that groups all the requests)
...?
I am thinking of opting for a) because I don't see a need to have a requestgroup. Besides, I think RequestGroup seems a bit definitional which is not what I need.Complex medication administration requets
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 06 2017 at 18:35):
MedicationRequest.dosageInstruction can repeat and a sequence can be assigned to each. So it can all be done within one order.
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 06 2017 at 18:36):
Though mixing medications is a bit more problematic - for that you may need to use RequestGroup
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 06 2017 at 18:59):
Isn't it sufficient to put them with a common GroupIdentifier?
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 06 2017 at 19:50):
A common group identifier means that they're all independent with their own statuses and can be cancelled, suspended, etc. separately. If that's what you need, then yes, groupIdentifier will work.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Sep 06 2017 at 20:06):
We want to be able to stop medication #2 independently of medication #1, etc. I think for now GroupIdentifier will work.
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