---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Medication Ingredient Strength Codes"
codesystem: "medication-ingredientstrength"
---
# Medication Ingredient Strength Codes

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-ingredientstrength
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: MedicationIngredientStrengthCodes
- **Title**: Medication Ingredient Strength Codes
- **Description**: Medication Ingredient Strength Codes
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| qs | QS | As much as is sufficient. |
| trace | Trace | Very small amount. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medication-ingredientstrength"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="phx"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-ingredientstrength"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.2062"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="MedicationIngredientStrengthCodes"/>
  <title value="Medication Ingredient Strength Codes"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <description value="Medication Ingredient Strength Codes"/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-ingredientstrength"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="qs"/>
    <display value="QS"/>
    <definition value="As much as is sufficient."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="trace"/>
    <display value="Trace"/>
    <definition value="Very small amount."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```