A functional description of an inventory item used in inventory and supply-related workflows.

Business identifier for the inventory item.

Status of the item entry.

Category or class of the item.

Code designating the specific type of item.

The item name(s) - the brand name, or common name, functional name, generic name.

The type of name e.g. 'brand-name', 'functional-name', 'common-name'.

The language that the item name is expressed in.

The name or designation that the item is given.

Organization(s) responsible for the product.

The role of the organization e.g. manufacturer, distributor, etc.

An organization that has an association with the item, e.g. manufacturer, distributor, responsible, etc.

The descriptive characteristics of the inventory item.

The language for the item description, when an item must be described in different languages and those languages may be authoritative and not translations of a 'main' language.

Textual description of the item.

The usage status e.g. recalled, in use, discarded... This can be used to indicate that the items have been taken out of inventory, or are in use, etc.

The base unit of measure - the unit in which the product is used or counted.

Net content or amount present in the item.

Association with other items or products.

This attribute defined the type of association when establishing associations or relations between items, e.g. 'packaged within' or 'used with' or 'to be mixed with.

The related item or product.

The quantity of the related product in this product - Numerator is the quantity of the related product. Denominator is the quantity of the present product. For example a value of 20 means that this product contains 20 units of the related product; a value of 1:20 means the inverse - that the contained product contains 20 units of the present product.

The descriptive or identifying characteristics of the item.

The type of characteristic that is being defined.

The value of the attribute.

The string value is used for characteristics that are descriptive and not codeable information. CodeableConcept.text is used when the characteristic is discrete and could otherwise be coded but for which there is no code available.

Instances or occurrences of the product.

The identifier for the physical instance, typically a serial number.

The lot or batch number of the item.

The expiry date or date and time for the product.

The subject that the item is associated with.

The location that the item is associated with.

Link to a product resource used in clinical workflows.