Chemistry:RxNorm

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Short description: Medical dictionary

RxNorm is short for medical prescription normalized Medical prescription [1]

RxNorm is US-specific terminology in medicine that contains all medications available on the US market.[1] It can also be used in personal health records applications.[citation needed] RxNorm is part of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) terminology and is maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM).[2]

Concept types

RxNorm distinguishes different types of drug concepts. It has concepts for drug ingredients, clinical drugs or dose forms.

Coverage

RxNorm only includes drugs that are approved in USA.

Use

(As of May 2017) NLM provides six APIs related to RxNorm.[3] There is also a web application called RxMix that allows users to access the RxNorm APIs without writing their own programs.[4]

RxNorm web viewer (RxNav)

See also

References

  1. Bennett, Casey C. (2012). "Utilizing RxNorm to support practical computing applications: Capturing medication history in live electronic health records". Journal of Biomedical Informatics 45 (4): 634–641. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2012.02.011. PMID 22426081. 
  2. "RxNorm Overview". National Institutes of Health. 25 April 2017. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/overview.html. 
  3. "APIs". U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/APIsOverview.html. 
  4. "RxMix Tutorial". U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/RxMixTutorial.html. 

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