MedicationDispense resource (FHIR R4)

MedicationDispense is the FHIR R4 resource for indicates that a medication product is to be or has been dispensed for a named person/patient.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "MedicationDispense",
  "id": "medicationdispense-f88ff769a5354553b629c171a5144206",
  "status": "completed",
  "medicationCodeableConcept": {
    "coding": [
      {
        "system": "http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm",
        "code": "omitted",
        "display": "RxNorm code omitted from this published example"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Dolophine 5mg"
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/patient-IKLT06DDHR"
  },
  "performer": [
    {
      "actor": {
        "display": "Pharmacy Department"
      }
    }
  ],
  "quantity": {
    "value": 30,
    "unit": "dose",
    "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org"
  },
  "daysSupply": {
    "value": 7,
    "unit": "Day",
    "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
    "code": "d"
  },
  "whenHandedOver": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "dosageInstruction": [
    {
      "text": "Take 1.5 dose QD"
    }
  ]
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate MedicationDispense --seed 20260722. Codes from licensed terminologies (LOINC, SNOMED CT, CPT, RxNorm) are omitted from published examples.

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a MedicationDispense instance against the base R4 structure definition: missing required elements raise REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING and cardinality violations raise CARDINALITY_MIN or CARDINALITY_MAX.(REQUIRED_FIELD_MISSING)
• strict Profile validation grades the same instance against an installed IG profile: profile cardinality findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY and terminology binding findings carry FHIR-PROFILE-BINDING.(FHIR-PROFILE-CARDINALITY)