Stream: implementers
Topic: take medication indefinitely
Rik Smithies (Jan 08 2019 at 17:16):
To say "take until further notice" would I use timing.repeat.boundsPeriod with a start and no end?
What does it mean if boundsPeriod is not present at all?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 08 2019 at 17:53):
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Arianne van de Wetering (Jan 10 2019 at 16:54):
To say "take until further notice" would I use timing.repeat.boundsPeriod with a start and no end?
Yes, that is how we do it.
What does it mean if boundsPeriod is not present at all?
To us that means: you don't know when it started, but the intention is to keep using it until further notice.
Although I must say: we defined an extension for usage period, since conceptually in The Netherlands the usage period belongs to the medication request as a whole and not to one dosage instruction (since there may be more than one dosage instruction in a medication request, we don't want our implementers to calculate the overarching usage period from the dosage instructions).
There may of course also be a usage duration for each dosage instruction. For example in the case of a schedule for building-up medication: we then also use sequence for ordering those instructions. We don't work with start/end date in the dosage instruction, only sequence and duration.
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