Any medication may be the subject of further instructions to the pharmacist, for example
to indicate that it should be labeled in Spanish, et cetera. This structure is included
in the target substance administration or supply act using the
element defined in the CDA Schema. The figure below is an example of recording an
instruction for an
, and is used as context for the sections to follow.
Context
Parent nodes of template element with id 1.3.6.1.4.1.19376.1.5.3.1.4.3.1
Classification
CDA Entry Level Template
Open/Closed
Open (other than defined elements are allowed)
Used by / Uses
Used by 0 transactions and 8 templates, Uses 0 templates
The
element contains a free text representation of the instruction. For CDA this SHALL
1520 contain a
element to the link text of the comment in the narrative portion of the document.
The comment itself is not the act being coded, so it appears in the
of the
, not as part of the .
(Entons)
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The URI given in the value attribute of the
element points to an element in the narrative content that contains the complete
text describing the medication. In a CDA document, the URI given in the value attribute
of the
element points to an element in the narrative content that contains the complete
text describing the medication.