View medication statements for an encounter

Overview

This flow describes how to view the medication statements of a patient from an encounter in Care.

Pre-requisites

• The patient is registered in Care, and you open the encounter for that patient.
• You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Can view clinical data about patients	Lets you read the medication statements of the patient.
Can Read encounter related clinical data	Lets you read the clinical records of the encounter.

Steps

1. Open the Medicines tab

Open the encounter.

Select the Medicines tab.

Note: To open the Medicines tab from anywhere in the encounter, press g and then press m.

2. Select the Medication Statements sub-tab

Select the Medication Statements sub-tab.

Care shows the count of the statements next to the title of the list.

Note: The list shows every medication statement of the patient. It does not show only the statements of this encounter.

3. Read the table

Care shows the medication statements in a table with these columns:

Column	What it shows
Medication	The name of the medicine.
Dosage	The dosage instructions for the medicine.
Status	The state of the statement, for example Active or Completed.
Medication Taken Between	The start date and the end date of the period. Care shows Ongoing when there is no end date.
Reason	Why the patient takes the medicine.
Notes	A See Note button. Select the button to read the note.
Logged by	The user who recorded the statement.

Note: Care does not show a statement that staff marked as Entered in Error.

4. Show more statements

Select Load More to add the next statements to the list.

Expected Outcome

• You see the medication statements of the patient.
• You see the medicine, the dosage instructions, the status, the period, and the reason for each statement.

Related

Concepts:

• Medication Statement

Flows:

• Record a medication statement
• Update a medication statement
• Mark a medication statement as entered in error