---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Product Cross Reference Type"
codesystem: "medicinal-product-cross-reference-type"
---
# Product Cross Reference Type

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/medicinal-product-cross-reference-type
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: ProductCrossReferenceType
- **Title**: Product Cross Reference Type
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Relationship to another Medicinal Product.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| InvestigationalProduct | Link to Investigational Product | Link to Investigational (Development) Product |
| VirtualProduct | Link Actual to Virtual Product | Link Actual to Virtual Product |
| ActualProduct | Link Virtual to Actual Product | Link Virtual to Actual Product |
| BrandedProduct | Link Generic to Branded Product | Link Generic to Branded Product |
| GenericProduct | Link Branded to Generic Product | Link Branded to Generic Product |
| Parallel | Link to Parallel Import Product | Link to Parallel Import Product |

## CodeSystem XML



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

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="medicinal-product-cross-reference-type"/>
  <meta>
    <lastUpdated value="2021-01-05T10:01:24.148+11:00"/>
  </meta>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="brr"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="informative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="1"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/medicinal-product-cross-reference-type"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.1921"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="ProductCrossReferenceType"/>
  <title value="Product Cross Reference Type"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Relationship to another Medicinal Product."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/medicinal-product-cross-reference-type"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="InvestigationalProduct"/>
    <display value="Link to Investigational Product"/>
    <definition value="Link to Investigational (Development) Product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="VirtualProduct"/>
    <display value="Link Actual to Virtual Product"/>
    <definition value="Link Actual to Virtual Product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="ActualProduct"/>
    <display value="Link Virtual to Actual Product"/>
    <definition value="Link Virtual to Actual Product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="BrandedProduct"/>
    <display value="Link Generic to Branded Product"/>
    <definition value="Link Generic to Branded Product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="GenericProduct"/>
    <display value="Link Branded to Generic Product"/>
    <definition value="Link Branded to Generic Product"/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="Parallel"/>
    <display value="Link to Parallel Import Product"/>
    <definition value="Link to Parallel Import Product"/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```