---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Medication Request Category Codes"
codesystem: "medicationrequest-category"
---
# Medication Request Category Codes

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-category
- **Version**: 6.0.0-ballot4
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: MedicationRequestCategoryCodes
- **Title**: Medication Request Category Codes
- **Publisher**: HL7 International
- **Description**: Medication Request Category Codes 
 **Note to Balloters: This code system is expected to move to [terminology.hl7.org](http://terminology.hl7.org)**
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| inpatient | Inpatient | Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed in an inpatient or acute care setting. |
| outpatient | Outpatient | Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed in an outpatient setting (for example, Emergency Department, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Surgery, Doctor's office). |
| community | Community | Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed by the patient in their home (this would include long term care or nursing homes, hospices, etc.). |
| discharge | Discharge | Includes requests for medications created when the patient is being released from a facility. |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medicationrequest-category"/>
  <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="informative"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/medicationrequest-category"/>
  <version value="6.0.0-ballot4"/>
  <name value="MedicationRequestCategoryCodes"/>
  <title value="Medication Request Category Codes"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 International"/>
  <description value="Medication Request Category Codes &#xA; **Note to Balloters: This code system is expected to move to [terminology.hl7.org](http://terminology.hl7.org)**"/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medicationrequest-category"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="inpatient"/>
    <display value="Inpatient"/>
    <definition value="Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed in an inpatient or acute care setting."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="outpatient"/>
    <display value="Outpatient"/>
    <definition value="Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed in an outpatient setting (for example, Emergency Department, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Surgery, Doctor's office)."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="community"/>
    <display value="Community"/>
    <definition value="Includes requests for medications to be administered or consumed by the patient in their home (this would include long term care or nursing homes, hospices, etc.)."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="discharge"/>
    <display value="Discharge"/>
    <definition value="Includes requests for medications created when the patient is being released from a facility."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```