Transaction: Procedure request

General information

Published

eHealth Platform

KMEHR

1.0

2002-10-15

The Procedure Request transaction aims to request any service other than a laboratory examination or the delivery of a pharmaceutical product.

Generalities

This transaction only requires a level 1 of kmehr normalization. However, further levels may be applied (see structure overview).

Transaction elements

id	id of the transaction according to the ID-KMEHR convention.
cd	You must use the value 'request' from CD-TRANSACTION. You can always add your own local codes.
date	This is the date of the request of the examination(s).
time	This is the time of the request of the examination(s).
author	This is the person assuming the responsibility of medical content of the request.
iscomplete	If this is false, this means that you transfer only part of the information and that the recipient should expect a more complete version later.
isvalidated	If this is false, this means that the information has not been validated medically.

Structure overview

You have the choice between:

text(s): to transfer your request as free text,
lnk(s): to encapsulate your request as a multimedia object (Word document for example),
items(s): to further structure your request.

Items

Any item from CD-ITEM can be used but we recommend more particularily the following ones.

Item type (cd)	Item purpose	Item structure
requestnumber	should contain the result number as free text or using KMEHR id	content (text \| id)
transactionreason	could possibly be used to specify the indication(s) of the examination	content text
technical	to identify the requested service	content (cd \| text) cd element could identify precisely the requested service using a value from CD-TECHNICAL
		[author] to specify the person that should perform the service.
		[beginmoment] to specify the date and time when the service should be performed
		[lifecyle] to specify the value 'prescribed' from CD-LIFECYCLE
		[site] to specify the body site on which the examination should be performed, using a value of CD-SITE

Name	XML
request_level3_1_0	xml