Stream: implementers
Topic: Medication DosageInstruction text
Ardon Toonstra (Oct 24 2019 at 12:40):
Medication-related Resources use the datatype DosageInstruction (card. 0..*) to convey dosage instructions. DosageInstruction.text is used to convey the full free text dosage instruction.
So every DosageInstruction has its own textual representation. Our use case and information model use multiple DosageInstructions, for example to contain different instructions over periods.
Our information model contains a concept that represent the dosage instruction for the whole period. Currently, we don’t see a way to represent this in FHIR. Therefore, we will probably define an extension on the Resource level.
My question is: should FHIR include a core extension or maybe even this concept in the resources?
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 24 2019 at 12:43):
@Melva Peters
Jean Duteau (Oct 24 2019 at 17:40):
Our information model contains a concept that represent the dosage instruction for the whole period. Currently, we don’t see a way to represent this in FHIR. Therefore, we will probably define an extension on the Resource level.
My question is: should FHIR include a core extension or maybe even this concept in the resources?
This has been brought up to Pharmacy by some previous work. We had not made a gForge tracker item for it but I just did (GF#25051). For R4, you will have to use an extension. We plan on addressing this for R5.
Ardon Toonstra (Oct 25 2019 at 11:22):
Thnx @Jean Duteau
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