medicationdispense

Indicates that a medication product is to be or has been dispensed for a named person/patient. This resource covers the supply of medications to a patient. See the HL7 FHIR R4 spec for full details. Previous version: medication_dispense Tables in this resource:

medicationdispense – Main medication dispense record (this page)
medicationdispense_extension
medicationdispense_extension_vcc_coding
medicationdispense_references – Normalized references; see Reference Tables

Reference Table: The medicationdispense_references table contains normalized references from the medication dispense to other entities. It supports the following reference properties:

medication_reference: links to the medication that was dispensed
subject: links to the patient who received the medication
performer.actor: links to practitioner or organization per reference_type

For detailed information about reference table structure and indexing, see the Reference Tables documentation. Primary Keys:

medicationdispense_id

Foreign Keys:

patient_id – links to the patient table
medication_id – links to the medication table

_{† Metriport Platform added}

Column	Data Type	Description
medicationdispense_id	varchar	Unique identifier for the medication dispense
patient_id	varchar	Unique identifier for the patient (subject)
medication_id	varchar	Reference to the dispensed medication
status	varchar	Status of the dispense (e.g. preparation, in-progress, completed, cancelled, on-hold, entered-in-error, stopped, declined, unknown)
whenhandedover	datetime	Date/time the medication was handed over
whenprepared	datetime	Date/time the medication was prepared
quantity_unit	varchar	Unit of quantity dispensed
quantity_value	varchar	Quantity dispensed
dayssupply_unit	varchar	Unit for days supply
dayssupply_value	varchar	Number of days supply
note_text†	varchar	Additional notes about the dispense (first note)
meta_source	varchar	Source document filename from FHIR meta.source
data_source_ext†	varchar	Integration source derived from FHIR extension

Related Tables: Parent:

Child:

medicationdispense_extension

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Renamed

medication_dispense_id → medicationdispense_id
when_handed_over → whenhandedover
when_prepared → whenprepared
days_supply_unit → dayssupply_unit
data_source → meta_source

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