Dosage specifications

A dosage specification consists of diagnosis details and dosage characteristics of a medication product associated with a program. For more information, see Dosage specification table.

Dosage characteristics

A dosage characteristic defines the attributes of a dosage specification.

A dosage characteristic has the following features:

• Is included in the Dosage characteristics characteristic group and a characteristic group mapped to a field in the Dosage details section of a medication prescription form.
• Can include a characteristic option to restrict the characteristic value. For example, to restrict the quantity of dosage. Else, when a characteristic option isn't specified for a dosage characteristic, a healthcare representative can later fill the corresponding field value in the Dosage details section of the Medication Prescription form.
• Is unique for a characteristic group when multiple entries for a characteristic are created. For example, when a dosage specification includes quantity characteristic as quantity per month supply, you can't add another characteristic for the quantity per week supply.
• Similar dosage characteristics are stored in the Characteristic Group [sn_prd_pm_configuration] table.

Characteristic groups for a dosage

A dosage characteristic group comprises the similar characteristics of a dosage specification. Each dosage characteristic maps to a field in the Dosage details section of the Medication Prescription form. For a dosage characteristic to appear with a dosage specification, you must include it in the following characteristic groups:

• A characteristic group mapped to a field in the Dosage details section of a medication prescription form.
• The Dosage characteristics characteristic group available by default.

Dosage characteristics mapping

You map a dosage characteristic group with a field in the Dosage details section of the Medication Prescription form. You can use the DosageCharacteristicsMapper extension point to configure the mapping between a characteristic group and a field in the Dosage details section of the Medication Prescription form. For more information, see Configure the mapping between a dosage characteristic and a dosage details field.

By default, the application provides a few sample characteristics and characteristic groups for the Healthcare and Life Sciences workflows that you can as a reference when creating a dosage specification.

The following figure illustrates the default mapping between characteristics and characteristic groups of a dosage specification, and the mapping between characteristic group of a dosage specification and dosage details fields of a medication prescription.