ePMA Implementation Guidance for FHIR STU3

This guidance is under active development by NHS Digital and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.

Element: taken

Warning: This element has been removed from the FHIR R4 standard

A mandatory element that needs to be supplied due to the cardinality if using STU3 / CareConnect.

It is expected that, in most cases, the administration of medication cannot be confirmed and will be the following code: unk (Unknown) from the MedicationStatementTaken codeset.

Note: If the administration of medication is known, then it must be provided.

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