Medication Data

Data Description

Contains all medication given during stay. Additional data like name and unit of measurement is found in d_references, where medication.DrugID is associated to d_references.ReferenceGlobalID. Metavision does not differ between continuous or single doses in rangesignals, so a single dose is set to 60 second admission time. Each change of a continuous application will end the current entry and create a new one.

medication.csv.gz

Name	Type	Description	Comment
id	Integer	Primary Key
CaseID	Integer	Case identifier
DrugID	Reference
Offset	Integer	Time in seconds after admission
OffsetDrugEnd	Integer	If drug was given continuously refers to end of application. Field is set to 60 seconds on bolus application.
IsSingleDose	Integer	Set to 1 when given as bolus.
Amount	Float	Full amount given regardless of time	Unity of measurement found in d_references
AmountPerMinute	Float	Dosage per minute	Unity of measurement found in d_references

Known Limitations

The medication data is generally considered as being widely valid. Nevertheless there are some limitations to be stated:

Offsets and Times

The offset is the documented time of drug application. As the observed intensive care unity do not use perfusor telemetry all values are entered manually. Following inaccuracies of of time give may be generally expected:

• +/- 5 minutes in anaesthesia settings
• +/- 5 minutes in resuscitation settings
• +/- 15 minutes in intensive care settings

The difference is explained in different default view range in medication input forms.

Different Reference for similar drugs

Due to liberal laws concerning drug names in Austria not all drugs are correctly labeled by their INN name and sometimes multiple proprietary products for the same substance are used. The SICDB Team used an algorithm to identify and unify the medication data. There may be special cases where this procedure failed, for example at compound antihypertensive drugs.