---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Medication Status Codes"
codesystem: "medication-status"
---
# Medication Status Codes

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medication-status
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: MedicationStatusCodes
- **Title**: Medication Status Codes
- **Description**: Medication Status Codes
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| active | Active | The medication record is current and is appropriate for reference in new instances. |
| inactive | Inactive | The medication record is not current and is not is appropriate for reference in new instances. |
| entered-in-error | Entered in Error | The medication record was created erroneously and is not appropriated for reference in new instances. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medication-status"/>
  <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-status"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1380"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="MedicationStatusCodes"/>
  <title value="Medication Status Codes"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <description value="Medication Status Codes"/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medication-status"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="active"/>
    <display value="Active"/>
    <definition value="The medication record is current and is appropriate for reference in new instances."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="inactive"/>
    <display value="Inactive"/>
    <definition value="The medication record is not current and is not is appropriate for reference in new instances."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="entered-in-error"/>
    <display value="Entered in Error"/>
    <definition value="The medication record was created erroneously and is not appropriated for reference in new instances."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```