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  <id value="medication-admin-category"/>
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    <lastUpdated value="2026-03-16T22:59:53.445+00:00"/>
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        <b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem medication-admin-category</b>
      </p>
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      <a name="hcmedication-admin-category"> </a>
      <p>This case-sensitive code system 
        <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-admin-category</code> defines the following codes:
      </p>
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        <tr>
          <td style="white-space:nowrap">
            <b>Code</b>
          </td>
          <td>
            <b>Display</b>
          </td>
          <td>
            <b>Definition</b>
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td style="white-space:nowrap">inpatient
            <a name="medication-admin-category-inpatient"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Inpatient</td>
          <td>Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an inpatient or acute care setting.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td style="white-space:nowrap">outpatient
            <a name="medication-admin-category-outpatient"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Outpatient</td>
          <td>Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an outpatient setting (for example, Emergency Department, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Surgery, Doctor's office).</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td style="white-space:nowrap">community
            <a name="medication-admin-category-community"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Community</td>
          <td>Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed by the patient in their home (this would include long term care or nursing homes, hospices, etc.).</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td style="white-space:nowrap">discharge
            <a name="medication-admin-category-discharge"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Discharge</td>
          <td>Includes administrations for medications created when the patient is being released from a facility.</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </div>
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    <valueCode value="phx"/>
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    <valueCode value="informative"/>
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  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-admin-category"/>
  <version value="6.0.0-ballot4"/>
  <name value="MedicationAdministrationCategoryCodes"/>
  <title value="Medication Administration Category Codes"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International"/>
  <description value="Medication Administration Category Codes &#xA; **Note to Balloters: This code system is expected to move to [terminology.hl7.org](http://terminology.hl7.org)**"/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm"/>
      <code value="001"/>
      <display value="World"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-admin-category"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="inpatient"/>
    <display value="Inpatient"/>
    <definition value="Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an inpatient or acute care setting."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="outpatient"/>
    <display value="Outpatient"/>
    <definition value="Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an outpatient setting (for example, Emergency Department, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Surgery, Doctor's office)."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="community"/>
    <display value="Community"/>
    <definition value="Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed by the patient in their home (this would include long term care or nursing homes, hospices, etc.)."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="discharge"/>
    <display value="Discharge"/>
    <definition value="Includes administrations for medications created when the patient is being released from a facility."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>