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Medications Use Cases

Query Use Cases​

How to use the Medications API's to perform queries for common use cases are detailed below:

Issued Medications​

To query for all issued medications for a patient, use the MedicationRequest API with the following parameters:

intent = order

For example:

GET /MedicationRequest?patient={id}&intent=order

Repeat Prescriptions​

To query for all current repeat prescriptions for a patient, use the MedicationRequest API with the following parameters:

intent = plan
status = active
prescription-type = https://fhir.graphnethealth.com/CodeSystem-PrescriptionType|R 

GET /MedicationRequest?patient=[value]&intent=plan&status=active&prescription-type=https://fhir.graphnethealth.com/CodeSystem-PrescriptionType|R

Examples​

Examples of payloads in both XML and JSON formats are available from the examples section of this site.