Class: Supply

Description of: Supply

Class steward is Orders/Observation
Supply orders and deliveries are very simple services that mainly focus on the delivered product. The product is associated with the supply service as a Material target of type product (PRD). Just as with Medication services there are in principle two ways to represent the type and identity of supplied material, i.e. as the Supply.type_cd or as the Material.type_cd of the target material (Target.type_cd = product.) With general supply orders the precise identification of the Material, its manufacturer, serial numbers, etc. is important, and supply services are only very marginal parts of the electronic patient record. Therefore, most of the detail information about the supply should be represented using the Material class.

Note that if delivery needs to be scheduled, tracked, and billed separately, one can associate Transportation services with the supply.

Pharmacy dispense services are represented as supply services, associated with a medication service. The medication class represents the administration of medication, while dispensing is supply.

Attribute definitions for: Supply

qty :: PQ

Specifies the quantity ordered or supplied (depending on the mood_cd.) This is a physical quantity (PQ) that must be from a constrained set of extensive "amount" kind of quantities. Refer to Section 2.7.1.10 for a definition of such "amount" quantities.