# MedicationPackagingSizeExtension - Implementation Guide ePA Medication Service v1.3.3

Implementation Guide

ePA Medication Service

Version 1.3.3 - release 

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**FHIR-Artefakte**](artifacts.md)
* **MedicationPackagingSizeExtension**

## Extension: MedicationPackagingSizeExtension 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:https://gematik.de/fhir/epa-medication/StructureDefinition/medication-packaging-size-extension | *Version*:1.3.0 |
| Active as of 2025-12-15 | *Computable Name*:MedicationPackagingSizeExtension |
| **Copyright/Legal**: gematik GmbH / Dieses Artefakt ist lizenziert unter [Apache License](./license.md), Version 2.0. | |

Specification of the package size according to divided quantity (e.g., 100, 2x25), only appears in conjunction with "unit" (e.g., 100 Stück).

**Context of Use**

This extension may be used on the following element(s):

* Element ID Element

**Usage info**

**Usages:**

* Use this Extension: [EPA Pharmaceutical Product Medication](StructureDefinition-epa-medication-pharmaceutical-product.md), [EPA Medication PZN Ingredient](StructureDefinition-epa-medication-pzn-ingredient.md) and [EPA Medication](StructureDefinition-epa-medication.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/resource/de.gematik.epa.medication|current/StructureDefinition/StructureDefinition-medication-packaging-size-extension.json)

### Formal Views of Extension Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots, and how the XML and JSON presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-medication-packaging-size-extension.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-medication-packaging-size-extension.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-medication-packaging-size-extension.sch) 

#### Constraints



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "medication-packaging-size-extension",
  "url" : "https://gematik.de/fhir/epa-medication/StructureDefinition/medication-packaging-size-extension",
  "version" : "1.3.0",
  "name" : "MedicationPackagingSizeExtension",
  "status" : "active",
  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2025-12-15",
  "publisher" : "gematik GmbH",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "gematik GmbH",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://www.gematik.de"
    },
    {
      "system" : "email",
      "value" : "patientteam [ at ] gematik.de"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "Specification of the package size according to divided quantity (e.g., 100, 2x25), only appears in conjunction with \"unit\" (e.g., 100 Stück).",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "urn:iso:std:iso:3166",
      "code" : "DE"
    }]
  }],
  "copyright" : "gematik GmbH / Dieses Artefakt ist lizenziert unter [Apache License](./license.html), Version 2.0.",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "complex-type",
  "abstract" : false,
  "context" : [{
    "type" : "element",
    "expression" : "Element"
  }],
  "type" : "Extension",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Extension",
      "path" : "Extension",
      "definition" : "Specification of the package size according to divided quantity (e.g., 100, 2x25), only appears in conjunction with \"unit\" (e.g., 100 Stück)."
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.extension",
      "path" : "Extension.extension",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.url",
      "path" : "Extension.url",
      "fixedUri" : "https://gematik.de/fhir/epa-medication/StructureDefinition/medication-packaging-size-extension"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "path" : "Extension.value[x]",
      "short" : "Package size according to divided quantity",
      "definition" : "Specification of the package size according to divided quantity (e.g., 100, 2x25), only appears in conjunction with \"unit\" (e.g., 100 Stück).",
      "min" : 1,
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "string"
      }],
      "maxLength" : 7
    }]
  }
}

```
