A categorization of a medication. Medications may be classified by various characteristics including Mechanism of Action, Mode of Action, Therapeutic Effect, Chemical Action, Pharmacokinetics, etc. These categorizations are used for multiple purposes including clinical decision support, drug-drug interaction checks, and drug-allergy interaction checks.

Attributes
«CS» Code	code	A categorization of a medication. The code system component of the Code data type determines the characteristic of the medication being classified. Common classifications include Mechanism of Action, Mode of Action, Therapeutic Effect, Chemical Action, Pharmacokinetics, etc.

 code

Public «CS» Code code

A categorization of a medication. The code system component of the Code data type determines the characteristic of the medication being classified. Common classifications include Mechanism of Action, Mode of Action, Therapeutic Effect, Chemical Action, Pharmacokinetics, etc.

Constraints:

Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	DrugClass
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	1
Lower Value	(1)
Multiplicity	1
Name	code
Name Expression
Namespace	DrugClass
Opposite
Owner	DrugClass
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::CommonProduct::DrugClass::code
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	«CS» Code
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public

• Example:
  HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor