Prescription
Object Class Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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METEOR identifier: | 600233 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | An order for medication, therapy or therapeutic device given by a properly authorised person, which ultimately goes to a person properly authorised to dispense, supply or perform the order (in most situations, a pharmacist). A prescription is usually in written form (either handwritten or computer generated); can be phoned or faxed; and includes the patient's name and address, the date, the medication prescribed either as approved or generic name or as a proprietary name (or trademark); directions to the pharmacist, whether it is acceptable to dispense a generic equivalent, directions to the patient that must appear on the label, prescriber's signature and an identifying prescriber number. |
Specialisation of: | Service/care event |
Relational attributes | |
Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class: | Prescription—repeat prescription indicator Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
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