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Substance resource (FHIR R4)

Substance is the FHIR R4 resource for a homogeneous material with a definite composition.

ResourceSubstance
FHIR versionR4 (4.0.1)
Canonical URLhttp://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Substance
Required elementscode (1..1)

Example

{
  "resourceType": "Substance",
  "id": "substance-375a2a0e07aac99d2ae37bdba7332426",
  "code": {
    "text": "Synthetic value"
  }
}

Generated by the Pidgeon engine: pidgeon generate Substance --seed 20260722.

Validation context

  • strict pidgeon validate grades a Substance 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)

This answer, in your terminal

pidgeon lookup Substance

Wire it into your AI agent:

claude mcp add pidgeon -- npx -y @pidgeonhealth/mcp

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Published by Pattern Engine LLC (Pidgeon Health).

Rendered from the same machine-readable definitions the Pidgeon engine validates against. Exported from the Pidgeon engine's FHIR R4 definitions (CC0); example generated with seed 20260722.