Dose Form Release Characteristic

Overview

736480007 |Dose form release characteristic (release characteristic)| represents a general type of pattern of release (e.g. conventional, modified, delayed, prolonged) of the active ingredient substance(s) from the dose form.

|Dose form release characteristic (release characteristic)| is a descendant of 362981000 |Qualifier value (qualifier value) that supports fully defining the 736542009 |Pharmaceutical dose form (dose form)| hierarchy.

Modeling

Parent concept

736480007 |Dose form release characteristic (release characteristic) or one or more descendants of 736480007 |Dose form release characteristic (release characteristic)

Semantic tag

(release characteristic)

Definition status

Primitive

Attributes

None

Naming

FSN

Use the following pattern for the FSN where X is the release characteristic, adding a hyphen when appropriate Combined release-characteristic concepts may be created to support modeling of concepts that display multiple release characteristics in a single formulation.

X (release characteristic)

For example,

Conventional release (release characteristic)
Delayed-release (release characteristic)
Prolonged-release (release characteristic)*
Modified-release (release characteristic)**
Delayed-release and prolonged-release (release characteristic)

*Prolonged was selected rather than Extended because feedback was received that it is more clear to translate for non-English speaking users; existing national drug extensions appear to use one or the other of these terms.

**Modified-release is a grouper that is not allowed to be used to model an international clinical drug concept.