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.

|Dose form release characteristic (release characteristic)| is used to model the 736542009 |Pharmaceutical dose form (dose form)| hierarchy; it is not used to model 763158003 |Medicinal product (product)|.

Modeling

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)*

Use the following pattern for the PT where X is the release characteristic, adding a hyphen when appropriate:

X

For example,

• Conventional release

• Delayed-release

• Prolonged-release

• Modified-release

Synonyms are not allowed unless explicitly identified as an exception in the Editorial Guidelines.

Preferred; not required.