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Actors, performers and resources
The concepts describing who takes part in care — subjects of care, professionals, organisations, and third parties — the roles they play, and what it means to provide care.
medicinal product
pharmaceutical product or combination of pharmaceutical products that may be administered to human beings for treating or preventing disease, with the aim or purpose of making a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify physiological functions

Actors, performers and resources
The concepts describing who takes part in care — subjects of care, professionals, organisations, and third parties — the roles they play, and what it means to provide care.
- care actor
  organization or person participating in care
- subject of care
  person seeking to receive, receiving, or having received care
- care provider
  care actor that is able to be assigned one or more care period mandates
- care third party
  care actor other than a care provider or the subject of care
- care organization
  organization being a care provider
- care employment
  mandate given by a care organization to a care personnel describing the roles and responsibilities assigned to that care personnel
- care personnel
  person mandated through a care employment
- care professional entitlement
  professional care mandate held by a person concerning specific roles in care
- care professional
  person holding a care professional entitlement
- other carer
  person being a care third party
- care supporting organization
  organization that is a care third party
- subject of care proxy
  care actor exercising a proxy mandate
- care performer
  role adopted by a person when performing care
- self-care performer
  role played by a subject of care when performing self-care
- third party care performer
  role performed by a care third party
- prescriber
  role performed by a care professional when recommending or authorising a care activity
- care resource
  resource needed to perform care activities
- point of care
  location where direct care activities are performed
- medical device
  instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, appliance, implant, reagent for in vitro use, software, material or other similar or related article, intended by the manufacturer to be used, alone or in combination, for human beings, for one or more of the specific medical purposes of — diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease, — diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury, — investigation, replacement, modification, or support of the anatomy or of a physiological process, — supporting or sustaining life, — control of conception, — disinfection of medical devices, — providing information by means of in vitro examination of specimens derived from the human body, and which does not achieve its primary intended action by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, in or on the human body, but which can be assisted in its intended function by such means
- automatic medical device
  medical device capable of performing care activities by itself or under human supervision
- medicinal product
  pharmaceutical product or combination of pharmaceutical products that may be administered to human beings for treating or preventing disease, with the aim or purpose of making a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify physiological functions
- care funds
  resource provided for funding care delivery
- facility
  place, building or equipment used for a particular purpose

medicinal product

pharmaceutical product or combination of pharmaceutical products that may be administered to human beings for treating or preventing disease, with the aim or purpose of making a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify physiological functions

medicinal product extends the class care resource

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Plural medicinal products

Note 1 A medicinal product may contain in the packaging one or more manufactured items and one or more pharmaceutical products. In certain regions, a medicinal product may also be defined as any substance or combination of substances which may be used to make a medical diagnosis.

Note 2 The provisions in this document apply to proprietary medicinal products for human use intended to be placed on the market and to be industrially manufactured medicinal products, the marketing of which has been authorised by a medicines regulatory agency. However, the provisions do not apply to: — medicinal products prepared according to prescription (e.g. prepared in a pharmacy from a prescription intended for a specific subject of care); — medicinal products prepared in accordance with an official formula (e.g. prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the instructions in a pharmacopoeia and intended to be given direct to the subject of care by the pharmacy); — medicinal products intended for research and development trials; — intermediate products intended for subsequent processing by an authorised manufacturer.