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Please note: This guidance has been superseded by the Implementation guide for digitial medicines, which contains up-to-date information.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: basedOn

This element should normally be used to link to a MedicationRequest which authorised the medication.

This element could potentially reference all medication requests relating to the medication or relevant instances of CarePlan or ServiceRequest.

This should not be confused with MedicationStatement.derivedFrom which should only be used to reference information that can’t be referenced here.

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