MedicationAdministration resource (FHIR R4)

MedicationAdministration is the FHIR R4 resource for describes the event of a patient consuming or otherwise being administered a medication.

Example

{
  "resourceType": "MedicationAdministration",
  "id": "medicationadministration-f607fe15fc1bd142615b6210148c188f",
  "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"
  },
  "effectiveDateTime": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "performer": [
    {
      "actor": {
        "display": "Nurse Administering"
      }
    }
  ],
  "dosage": {
    "text": "Take 1.5 dose QD",
    "route": {
      "coding": [
        {
          "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
          "code": "omitted",
          "display": "SNOMED CT code omitted from this published example"
        }
      ]
    },
    "dose": {
      "value": 1.5,
      "unit": "dose",
      "system": "http://unitsofmeasure.org"
    }
  }
}

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

Validation context

• strict pidgeon validate grades a MedicationAdministration 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)