# ACTION.medication_management / method

**Category:** [Ask IEB](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/ask-ieb/37)
**Created:** 2022-06-07 22:19 UTC
**Views:** 556
**Replies:** 3
**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/action-medication-management-method/2695

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## Post #1 by @thomas.beale

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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## Post #2 by @Simon

Its a complex area. Some administrations have to be witnessed too.

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## Post #3 by @ian.mcnicoll

Better Meds uses a Dosage Cluster archetype to capture these elments inside ACTION.medication

![image|553x499](upload://ntTCtnPSINTTb8qKOUzilsxHsbs.png)

Adminisitration method would be 'infusion'

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## Post #4 by @thomas.beale

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...

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