Page Status: updated 2022-03-14

Medication

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Introduction

The Medication resource, shown in the profile NLLMedication, is used for the identification and definition of a medicinal product or a medical consumable associated with a MedicationRequest or MedicationDispense. The medication resource is based on data from the VARA registry (a registry provided by the Swedish eHealth Agency).

Overview

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Details

Description of all elements can be found here, Element descriptions.

Mapping of FHIR element names to the National Medication List names can be found here, Element language mappings.

Medication statuses

The available statuses for the medication resource mirror the statuses used by the Swedish Medical Products Agency (sv Läkemedelsverket) and the VARA registry. The following statuses are used within the National Medication List for the medication resource.

Code Definition
active Dispenseable at the pharmacy (sv: möjlig att expediera)
inactive Not dispenseable at the pharmacy (sv: inte möjlig att expediera)
entered-in-error The medication was entered in error (sv: felaktigt registrerad artikel)
This code is not used at the moment but remains in the value set for future use

See Value Set Medication Status Codes.

Medication identifiers

The following business identifiers are used within the National Medication List for medicinal products and medical consumables.

Attribute Definition
nplpackid Unique identifier for a packaged medicinal product (sv: läkemedelsartikel)
varunr Unique identifier for a medical consumable (sv:handelsvara)

Note that nplid is not an unique identifier of a medication resource and therefore not a valid business identifier. A medicinal product can come in more than one package type/size. Each package type/size will have an unique NPL package Id but share the same NPL Id.

Supported operations

HTTP methods

Operation Supported Comment
Search (GET, POST) yes See below for supported search options.
Insert (POST) no
Update (PUT) no
Delete (DEL) no
Operation (GET, POST) no

When interacting with this resource a set of HTTP-headers must be included in the request, see HTTP Header and Authorization.

Query operations

Supported queries

The following query alternatives are available for this resource.

  1. ../Medication/[id]

  2. ../Medication?[parameters]
    Parameter chains:

    Chain 1
    nplPackId=[id]{,[id]...}

    Chain 2
    varunr=[id]{,[id]...}

Compartment searches

Compartments are not supported by this resource.

Include & reverse includes

Include and revinclude are not supported by this resource.

Search parameters

The table below shows all supported search parameters.

Search parameter Description Comment
Medication/[id] A read based on the logical ID (UUID) of a product
../Medication/<uuid>
nplPackId NPL pack-id of a medicinal product
..?nplPackId=19590101100023,20010720100892
varunr Medical consumables Id of a consumables product
..?varunr=185124

Other operations (extensions)

This resource has no extended operations.