Extensions

This page gives an overview of common extensions needed for Medication and MedicationRequest resources. Proposals are listed by logical model data elements, explanation and examples of European national and crossborder requirements/implementations are provided as justification for change request.

Extension on Medication

Name of the medicinal product

Name type and language

Product classification

Pharmaceutical dose form

(possibly extension needed for dose form type or different dose forms for one product)

Unit of presentation

(if used as an independent characteristic)

Package type (container)

Pack size

(corresponds to totalAmount, but needed on different layers to describe pack size such as "5 vials of 3ml each"

Administration device

(reference from .item)

Strength type

(modelling not clear for the profile)

Extension on MedicationRequest

Quantity of prescribed products

(number of packages or manufactured items of product).