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description: Preventive actions that contributed to avoiding the adverse event or Ameliorating actions taken after the adverse event occured in order to reduce the extent of harm. This object is available in API version 61.0 and later.
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# AdverseEventAction

Preventive actions that contributed to avoiding the adverse event or Ameliorating actions taken after the adverse event occured in order to reduce the extent of harm. This object is available in API version 61.0 and later.

## Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search(), undelete(), update(), upsert()

## Fields

### ActionCodeId

- **Type**: reference
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update
- **Description**: The code of the adverse incident action.
    
    This field is a polymorphic relationship field.
- **Relationship Name**: ActionCode
- **Refers To**: CodeSet, CodeSetBundle

### ActionReferenceId

- **Type**: reference
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Group, Sort, Update
- **Description**: The reference of the action that caused the adverse incident.
    
    This field is a polymorphic relationship field.
- **Relationship Name**: ActionReference
- **Refers To**: DiagnosticSummary, Medication, MedicationRequest, PatientImmunization, PatientMedicalProcedure

### ActionType

- **Type**: picklist
- **Properties**: Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Restricted picklist, Sort, Update
- **Description**: Specifes the type of action that contributed to the adverse incident.
- **Default value**: Preventive
- **Possible values**:
    - Mitigative
    - Preventive

### AdverseEventEntryId

- **Type**: reference
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Group, Sort
- **Description**: The parent adverse incident associated with the action.
    
    This field is a relationship field.
- **Relationship Name**: AdverseEventEntry
- **Relationship Type**: Master-detail
- **Refers To**: AdverseEventEntry (the master object)

### LastReferencedDate

- **Type**: dateTime
- **Properties**: Filter, Nillable, Sort
- **Description**: The timestamp for when the current user last viewed a record related to this record.

### LastViewedDate

- **Type**: dateTime
- **Properties**: Filter, Nillable, Sort
- **Description**: The timestamp for when the current user last viewed this record. If this value is null, it’s possible that this record was referenced (LastReferencedDate) and not viewed.

### Name

- **Type**: string
- **Properties**: Autonumber, Defaulted on create, Filter, idLookup, Sort
- **Description**: The name of the research study.

## Associated Objects

This object has the following associated objects. If the API version isn’t specified, they’re available in the same API versions as this object. Otherwise, they’re available in the specified API version and later.

[AdverseEventActionChangeEvent](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.life_sciences_dev_guide.meta/life_sciences_dev_guide/sforce_api_associated_objects_change_event.htm "A StandardObjectNameChangeEvent object is available for each object that supports Change Data Capture. You can subscribe to a stream of change events using Change Data Capture to receive data tied to record changes in Salesforce. Changes include record creation, updates to an existing record, deletion of a record, and undeletion of a record. A change event isn’t a Salesforce object—it doesn’t support CRUD operations or queries. It’s included in the object reference so you can discover which Salesforce objects support change events.")

Change events are available for the object.

[AdverseEventActionFeed](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.life_sciences_dev_guide.meta/life_sciences_dev_guide/sforce_api_associated_objects_feed.htm "StandardObjectNameFeed is the model for all feed objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent the posts and feed-tracked changes of a standard object.")

Feed tracking is available for the object.

[AdverseEventActionHistory](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.life_sciences_dev_guide.meta/life_sciences_dev_guide/sforce_api_associated_objects_history.htm "StandardObjectNameHistory is the model for all history objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent the history of changes to the values in the fields of a standard object.")

History is available for tracked fields of the object.