Drug Product

Version 3
Published September 29, 2026
Updated November 2, 2026

A product manufactured to be used by patients or administered to them, containing a set or mixture of substances that can impart biological, physiological or psychological effects by exerting pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action.
May be a vaccine or a non-vaccine medication.

Appears in

Constraints

Unique key(s)

Drug Code

Stereotype(s)

Catalog

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Multiplicity	Attribute note
Drug Code	Codeable Concept	1	Uniquely specifies a non-vaccine or vaccine drug product. Value Sets: for non-vaccine medications: Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD): https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/prescriptionmedicinalproduct Health Canada Drug Identification Number (DIN): https://health-products.canada.ca/dpd-bdpp/ Health Canada Natural Product Number (NPN): https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/natural-non-prescription/applications-submissions/product-licensing/licensed-natural-health-products-database.html Alternate value set: Alternate Pharmaceutical Biologic: https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/pharmaceuticalbiologicproductandsubstancecode for vaccine products: Tradename immunizing agent: https://nvc-cnv.canada.ca/en/tradename-immunizing-agents
Drug DIN Code	Codeable Concept	0..1	Uniquely specifies the Health Canada-issued Drug Identification Number (DIN) of a medication. May be equal to Drug Code or different if Drug Code is from a non-DIN value set (e.g., CCDD or NPN). Value set: https://health-products.canada.ca/dpd-bdpp/
Controlled Drug Indicator	Indicator	0..1	An indicator of whether the medication is a controlled substance.
Controlled Drug Policy Code	Codeable Concept	0..*	Uniquely specifies the controlled drug policy(ies) the drug must comply with (e.g., Opioid Patient Info - Health Canada, Narcotics, Targeted (CDSA IV)). Value Set: To be developed.
Drug Status Code	Codeable Concept	0..1	Uniquely specifies the life cycle of availability of the medicinal product concept in the supply chain and therefore by implication its availability for use in e-prescribing and dispensing to patients (e.g., active, inactive, deprecated). Value Set: To be developed
Drug Status Effective Date	Date	0..1	The first date when the information specified is valid.

Relationships

From class	From multiplicity	Relationship	To class	To multiplicity
Medication Product Lot	0..*	for {Not Vaccine}	Drug Product	1
Vaccine Product Administered		is a {Drug Code value set https://nvc-cnv.canada.ca/en/tradename-immunizing-agents}	Drug Product
Vaccine Product		is a	Drug Product
Drug Product		is a	Drug
Health Care Product Manufacturing Organization	0..1	for (as market authorization holder) {Not Vaccine}	Drug Product	0..*

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How to cite:

Canadian Institute for Health Information. Drug Product. Accessed November 02, 2026.