Global Core Electronic Medicinal Product Information (ePI)
1.1.0 - trial-use World

Global Core Electronic Medicinal Product Information (ePI), published by HL7 International / Biomedical Research and Regulation. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/emedicinal-product-info/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

CodeSystem: Group Characteristic Type Code System (ePI) (Experimental)

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/emedicinal-product-info/CodeSystem/epi-group-characteristic-type Version: 1.1.0
Standards status: Informative Computable Name: GroupCharacteristicTypeCS

The axis a population characteristic describes (e.g., sex, age, body weight, organ function), for use in Group definitions and in MedicationKnowledge dosing guidelines.

This Code system is referenced in the definition of the following value sets:

This case-sensitive code system http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/emedicinal-product-info/CodeSystem/epi-group-characteristic-type defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
sex Sex Administrative/biological sex of the population.
age Age Age of the population, expressed as a range.
body-weight Body weight Body weight of the population, expressed as a range.
race Race Race / ethnic grouping of the population.
lifestyle Lifestyle Relevant lifestyle factor (e.g., smoking status, pregnancy).
renal-function Renal function Renal function of the population, typically expressed as a creatinine-clearance range.
hepatic-function Hepatic function Hepatic function / degree of hepatic impairment.
immune-status Immune status Immune competence of the population (e.g., immunocompromised, chronic immune suppression).

Description of the above table(s).