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Example CodeSystem/medication-admin-category (JSON)

Responsible Owner: Pharmacy Work GroupStandards Status: Informative

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Definition for Code SystemMedicationAdministrationCategoryCodes

{
  "resourceType" : "CodeSystem",
  "id" : "medication-admin-category",
  "meta" : {
    "lastUpdated" : "2025-11-03T08:55:27.392+00:00",
    "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablecodesystem"]
  },
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem medication-admin-category</b></p><a name=\"medication-admin-category\"> </a><a name=\"hcmedication-admin-category\"> </a><div style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #d9e0e7; padding: 6px; margin: 4px; border: 1px solid #8da1b4; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 60%\"><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"/><p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\">Profile: <a href=\"shareablecodesystem.html\">Shareable CodeSystem</a></p></div><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-admin-category</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class=\"codes\"><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>"
  },
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
    "valueCode" : "phx"
  }],
  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-admin-category",
  "version" : "6.0.0-ballot3",
  "name" : "MedicationAdministrationCategoryCodes",
  "title" : "Medication Administration Category Codes",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "publisher" : "HL7 International",
  "description" : "Medication Administration Category Codes \n **Note to Balloters: This code system is expected to move to [terminology.fhir.org](http://terminology.fhir.org)**",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "001",
      "display" : "World"
    }]
  }],
  "caseSensitive" : true,
  "valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-admin-category",
  "content" : "complete",
  "concept" : [{
    "code" : "inpatient",
    "display" : "Inpatient",
    "definition" : "Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an inpatient or acute care setting."
  },
  {
    "code" : "outpatient",
    "display" : "Outpatient",
    "definition" : "Includes administrations for medications to be administered or consumed in an outpatient setting (for example, Emergency Department, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Surgery, Doctor's office)."
  },
  {
    "code" : "community",
    "display" : "Community",
    "definition" : "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.)."
  },
  {
    "code" : "discharge",
    "display" : "Discharge",
    "definition" : "Includes administrations for medications created when the patient is being released from a facility."
  }]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.