Stream: implementers
Topic: How to model series of Procedures/Medications
Noemi Deppenwiese (Dec 10 2019 at 09:51):
We want to capture the treatment of patients with radiation and /or chemo therapy. Currently, we are planning to model radiation using the procedure and chemo using the MedicationAdministration Resource. However, both treatments usually consist of a number of individual sessions. However, we might not be able to access the information about individual treatments, only about the series. Is it valid to use a single Procedure / MedicationStatement for all these sessions together?
René Spronk (Dec 10 2019 at 10:19):
Question: is a 'session' an Encounter ? If not, how would you define it?
Noemi Deppenwiese (Dec 10 2019 at 10:28):
At the moment, the plan is to use one Procedure/MedicationAdministration per session if the information is available, if not to use one resource for the series.
Lloyd McKenzie (Dec 10 2019 at 13:10):
Procedure can be used to capture an individual event or a series, so yes, I think your design choice is reasonable
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 10 2019 at 21:03):
Agree with Procedure if you only want to track the administered medication.
If you want to track the planned as well as administered medications, I would use CarePlan
Noemi Deppenwiese (Dec 11 2019 at 09:17):
Thanks for the advice!
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