Stream: implementers
Topic: Medication regimen
Keeyan Ghoreshi (Apr 20 2020 at 14:39):
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. I was wondering if anybody knows of any IGs or guidance that specify how to deal with representing medication regimens. I know the FHIR spec has guidance on how to represent multiple medication requests, though I'd still like to see if there's any IGs that discuss or use medication regimens in FHIR. Thanks.
Melva Peters (Apr 20 2020 at 15:04):
when you say medication regimens, do you mean protocols for example? Can you give more details of what you mean?
Keeyan Ghoreshi (Apr 20 2020 at 15:13):
I'm not sure if it's a protocol, but I'm speaking specifically about cancer medication regimens. For example: https://ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&ns=ncit&code=C138047
I'd like to represent the medications in the regimen as a single entity.
Jean Duteau (Apr 20 2020 at 15:21):
Keeyan Ghoreshi said:
I'm not sure if it's a protocol, but I'm speaking specifically about cancer medication regimens. For example: https://ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/ConceptReport.jsp?dictionary=NCI_Thesaurus&ns=ncit&code=C138047
I'd like to represent the medications in the regimen as a single entity.
The resource for regimens would be CarePlan. Take a look at the Scope of that resource.
Melva Peters (Apr 20 2020 at 15:30):
I believe PlanDefinition has also been proposed for this use case.
Lloyd McKenzie (Apr 20 2020 at 15:33):
PlanDefinition is for patient-indepenent/time-independent. CarePlan is for a patient-specific time-bounded regimen
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