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Regulated Clinical Research Information Management Work Group | Maturity Level: 0 | Draft | Compartments: Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson |
Detailed Descriptions for the elements in the AdverseEvent resource.
AdverseEvent | |
Definition | Actual or potential/avoided event causing unintended physical injury resulting from or contributed to by medical care, a research study or other healthcare setting factors that requires additional monitoring, treatment, or hospitalization, or that results in death. |
Control | 1..1 |
Alternate Names | AE |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.identifier | |
Definition | The identifier(s) of this adverse event that are assigned by business processes and/or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the resource itsefl is not appropriate. |
Note | This is a business identifer, not a resource identifier (see discussion) |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Identifier |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.category | |
Definition | The type of event which is important to characterize what occurred and caused harm to the subject, or had the potential to cause harm to the subject. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventCategory (Required) |
Type | code |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.type | |
Definition | This element defines the specific type of event that occurred or that was prevented from occurring. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | SNOMED CT Clinical Findings (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.subject | |
Definition | This subject or group impacted by the event. With a prospective adverse event, there will be no subject as the adverse event was prevented. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Patient | ResearchSubject | Medication | Device) |
Alternate Names | patient |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.date | |
Definition | The date (and perhaps time) when the adverse event occurred. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | dateTime |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.reaction | |
Definition | Includes information about the reaction that occurred as a result of exposure to a substance (for example, a drug or a chemical). |
Control | 0..* |
Type | Reference(Condition) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.location | |
Definition | The information about where the adverse event occurred. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Location) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.seriousness | |
Definition | Describes the seriousness or severity of the adverse event. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventSeriousness (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.outcome | |
Definition | Describes the type of outcome from the adverse event. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventOutcome (Required) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.recorder | |
Definition | Information on who recorded the adverse event. May be the patient or a practitioner. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Patient | Practitioner | RelatedPerson) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.eventParticipant | |
Definition | Parties that may or should contribute or have contributed information to the Act. Such information includes information leading to the decision to perform the Act and how to perform the Act (e.g. consultant), information that the Act itself seeks to reveal (e.g. informant of clinical history), or information about what Act was performed (e.g. informant witness). |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Practitioner | Device) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.description | |
Definition | Describes the adverse event in text. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | string |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity | |
Definition | Describes the entity that is suspected to have caused the adverse event. |
Control | 0..* |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.instance | |
Definition | Identifies the actual instance of what caused the adverse event. May be a substance, medication, medication administration, medication statement or a device. |
Control | 1..1 |
Type | Reference(Substance | Medication | MedicationAdministration | MedicationStatement | Device) |
Alternate Names | Substance or Medication or Device |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causality | |
Definition | causality1 | causality2. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventCausality (Required) |
Type | code |
Summary | true |
To Do | is this meant to be a backbone element? |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityAssessment | |
Definition | assess1 | assess2. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventCausalityAssessment (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityProductRelatedness | |
Definition | AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityProductRelatedness. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | string |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityMethod | |
Definition | method1 | method2. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventCausalityMethod (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityAuthor | |
Definition | AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityAuthor. |
Control | 0..1 |
Type | Reference(Practitioner | PractitionerRole) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.suspectEntity.causalityResult | |
Definition | result1 | result2. |
Control | 0..1 |
Terminology Binding | AdverseEventCausalityResult (Example) |
Type | CodeableConcept |
Summary | true |
To Do | what is difference between assessment and result? |
AdverseEvent.subjectMedicalHistory | |
Definition | AdverseEvent.subjectMedicalHistory. |
Control | 0..* |
Type | Reference(Condition | Observation | AllergyIntolerance | FamilyMemberHistory | Immunization | Procedure) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.referenceDocument | |
Definition | AdverseEvent.referenceDocument. |
Control | 0..* |
Type | Reference(DocumentReference) |
Summary | true |
AdverseEvent.study | |
Definition | AdverseEvent.study. |
Control | 0..* |
Type | Reference(ResearchStudy) |
Summary | true |