# ACTION.medication\_management / method
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695
**Category:** Ask IEB
**Created:** [7 June 2022 22:19 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695 "2022-06-07T22:19:17Z")
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### Author:  [@thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/thomas.beale)
#### Post date: [7 June 2022 22:19 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695/1 "2022-06-07T22:19:17Z")
Just working on an exercise using Medication Mgt ACTION archetype…
I see that ‘administration method’ is just a DV\_TEXT. I would have expected a CLUSTER, since you might want to say something that needs a few bits of information. E.g. in chemotherapy:
method:
- type = infusion
- duration=1:30
I don’t think it would be hard to come up with other examples where more than just a text or coded text was needed.
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@Simon](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/Simon)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 14:21 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695/2 "2022-06-08T14:21:16Z")
Its a complex area. Some administrations have to be witnessed too.
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### Author:  [@ian.mcnicoll](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/ian.mcnicoll)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 16:42 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695/3 "2022-06-08T16:42:19Z")
Better Meds uses a Dosage Cluster archetype to capture these elments inside ACTION.medication
Adminisitration method would be ‘infusion’
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### Author:  [@thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/thomas.beale)
#### Post date: [8 June 2022 21:35 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695/4 "2022-06-08T21:35:40Z")
This doesn’t seem quite right to me. Shouldn’t the items Timing, Administration rate, Administration duration and method be in a group under ‘protocol’. I find it strange that those items are inside the ‘dose’ part.
Sorry to be picky…