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A single issue - either an indication, contraindication, interaction or an undesirable effect for a medicinal product, medication, device or procedure.
For an overview of this resource and others in the Medication Definition domain, also see the module page
ClinicalUseDefinition is to record an instance of facts about a particular medication, substance, device, procedure, biologically derived product or nutrition product, in relation to its intended use (indication), situations where it should not normally be used (contraindication), known side effects (undesirable effects), clashes with other substances - medications, foods etc. (interactions) and critical information about risks or hazards to caution the user or consumer (warnings). The resource is used to record one such instance, and all its details.
The ClinicalUseDefinition resource is designed to represent definitional facts about the potential use of a medication, substance, device, procedure, biologically derived product, or nutrition product.
These may be used when submitting a product dossier to regulators, as part of an electronic medication or medical device knowledge base, or directly during decision support activities.
The clinical issue does not refer to any actual instance of the medication, device or procedure etc. being used, or to any actual patient event.
The resource is used to record one instance of one of these:
Additional definitions: Master Definition XML + JSON, XML Schema/Schematron + JSON Schema, ShEx (for Turtle) + see the extensions, the spreadsheet version & the dependency analysis
Path | ValueSet | Type | Documentation |
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ClinicalUseDefinition.type | ClinicalUseDefinitionType | Required | Overall defining type of this clinical use definition. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.category | ClinicalUseDefinitionCategory | Preferred | A categorisation for a clinical use information item. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.status | PublicationStatus | Preferred | The lifecycle status of an artifact. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.diseaseSymptomProcedure | DiseaseSymptomProcedure | Example | A symptom, disease or procedure. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.diseaseStatus | DiseaseStatus | Example | The status of a disease or symptom. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.comorbidity | DiseaseSymptomProcedure | Example | A symptom, disease or procedure. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.otherTherapy.relationshipType | TherapyRelationshipType | Preferred | Classification of relationship between a therapy and a contraindication or an indication. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.otherTherapy.treatment | Therapy | Example | A therapy. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.diseaseSymptomProcedure | DiseaseSymptomProcedure | Example | A symptom, disease or procedure. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.diseaseStatus | DiseaseStatus | Example | The status of a disease or symptom. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.comorbidity | DiseaseSymptomProcedure | Example | A symptom, disease or procedure. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.intendedEffect | ProductIntendedUse | Preferred | The overall intended use of a product. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.interactant.item[x] | Interactant | Example | An interactant - a substance that may have a clinically significant effect on another. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.type | InteractionType | Example | A categorisation for an interaction between two substances. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.effect | InteractionEffect | Example | A interaction effect of clinical use of a medication or other substance. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.incidence | InteractionIncidence | Example | A categorisation for incidence of occurence of an interaction. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.management | InteractionManagement | Example | A type of management for an interaction of a medication or other substance. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.symptomConditionEffect | UndesirableEffectSymptom | Example | An undesirable effect of clinical use. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.classification | UndesirableEffectClassification | Example | A categorisation for an undesirable effect. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.frequencyOfOccurrence | UndesirablEffectFrequency | Example | A categorisation for a frequency of occurence of an undesirable effect. |
ClinicalUseDefinition.warning.code | WarningType | Example | Classification of warning type. |
UniqueKey | Level | Location | Description | Expression |
![]() | Rule | (base) | Indication, Contraindication, Interaction, UndesirableEffect and Warning cannot be used in the same instance | (ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.count() + ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.count() + ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.count() + ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.count() + ClinicalUseDefinition.warning.count()) < 2 |
Search parameters for this resource. See also the full list of search parameters for this resource, and check the Extensions registry for search parameters on extensions related to this resource. The common parameters also apply. See Searching for more information about searching in REST, messaging, and services.
Name | Type | Description | Expression | In Common |
contraindication | token | The situation that is being documented as contraindicating against this item, as a code | ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.diseaseSymptomProcedure.concept | |
contraindication-reference | reference | The situation that is being documented as contraindicating against this item, as a reference | ClinicalUseDefinition.contraindication.diseaseSymptomProcedure.reference | |
effect | token | The situation in which the undesirable effect may manifest, as a code | ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.symptomConditionEffect.concept | |
effect-reference | reference | The situation in which the undesirable effect may manifest, as a reference | ClinicalUseDefinition.undesirableEffect.symptomConditionEffect.reference | |
identifier | token | Business identifier for this issue | ClinicalUseDefinition.identifier | |
indication | token | The situation that is being documented as an indicaton for this item, as a code | ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.diseaseSymptomProcedure.concept | |
indication-reference | reference | The situation that is being documented as an indicaton for this item, as a reference | ClinicalUseDefinition.indication.diseaseSymptomProcedure.reference | |
interaction | token | The type of the interaction e.g. drug-drug interaction, drug-food interaction, drug-lab test interaction | ClinicalUseDefinition.interaction.type | |
product | reference | The medicinal product for which this is a clinical usage issue | ClinicalUseDefinition.subject.where(resolve() is MedicinalProductDefinition) (MedicinalProductDefinition) |
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status | token | Whether this is a current issue or one that has been retired etc. | ClinicalUseDefinition.status | |
subject | reference | The resource for which this is a clinical usage issue | ClinicalUseDefinition.subject (MedicinalProductDefinition, NutritionProduct, BiologicallyDerivedProduct, Device, Medication, DeviceDefinition, PlanDefinition, Substance, ActivityDefinition) |
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type | token | indication | contraindication | interaction | undesirable-effect | warning | ClinicalUseDefinition.type |