# Medication Additional Therapeutic Good Detail String - Common Components FHIR Implementation Guide v26.0.0

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# Common Components FHIR Implementation Guide

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* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**FHIR Artefacts**](artifacts.md)
* **Medication Additional Therapeutic Good Detail String**

## Extension: Medication Additional Therapeutic Good Detail String 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string | *Version*:26.0.0 |
| Draft as of 2026-07-14 | *Computable Name*:Medication_Additional_Therapeutic_Good_Detail_String |
| **Copyright/Legal**: This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) | |

Supplemental descriptive information such as physical appearance or packaging (e.g., 'White, round tablet with ABC123 imprint') captured from CDA manufactured material descriptions.

The purpose of this extension is to retain supplemental therapeutic good descriptive details from CDA manufactured material content that are important for identification but not captured in core Medication elements.

**Context of Use**

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* Examples for this Extension: [Medication/medication-cda-extensions-example](Medication-medication-cda-extensions-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/resource/au.gov.digitalhealth.cc|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string.json)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string.sch) 

#### Constraints

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## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string",
  "url" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string",
  "version" : "26.0.0",
  "name" : "Medication_Additional_Therapeutic_Good_Detail_String",
  "title" : "Medication Additional Therapeutic Good Detail String",
  "status" : "draft",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2026-07-14T04:17:55+00:00",
  "publisher" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/"
    },
    {
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "help@digitalhealth.gov.au"
    }]
  },
  {
    "name" : "Australian Digital Health Agency",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "mailto:help@digitalhealth.gov.au",
      "use" : "work"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "Supplemental descriptive information such as physical appearance or packaging (e.g., 'White, round tablet with ABC123 imprint') captured from CDA manufactured material descriptions.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
      "code" : "AU",
      "display" : "Australia"
    }]
  }],
  "purpose" : "The purpose of this extension is to retain supplemental therapeutic good descriptive details from CDA manufactured material content that are important for identification but not captured in core Medication elements.",
  "copyright" : "This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Medication"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension|4.0.1",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "short" : "Medication Additional Therapeutic Good Detail String",
      "definition" : "Supplemental descriptive information such as physical appearance or packaging (e.g., 'White, round tablet with ABC123 imprint') captured from CDA manufactured material descriptions."
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "http://digitalhealth.gov.au/fhir/cc/StructureDefinition/medication-additional-therapeutic-good-detail-string"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "short" : "Additional therapeutic good details",
      "definition" : "Enhanced descriptive information captured from CDA manufacturedMaterial/ext:desc elements. Provides supplemental descriptions for dispensed items such as physical appearance or packaging details.",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "string"
      }]
    }]
  }
}

```