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

Related Tables: Parent:

• medication
• patient

Child:

• medicationdispense_extension

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Version diff

Renamed

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