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RxNorm

John Kilbourne, M.D.


National Library of Medicine
kilbourj@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Quick intro

What is it?
NDC codes
NDF-RT
What is it?

Names and codes for orderable medications


Things with an ingredient, strength, dose form
No devices or supplies
No drug classes per se
Derived from 9 source vocabularies
R N
RxNorm iis th
the tenth
t th source
Updated monthly/weekly
Available as a zip download
NDC codes

No central assignment, publication, or


maintenance
Almost 290,000 derived NDCs
Some inconsistencies across sources
No NDCs provided from Medispan or First
DataBank
NDF-RT

Vocabulary from the Veterans Health


Administration
Drug classes
Mechanism of Action
Physiological Effect
Structure
Therapeutic effect
http://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/NDF-RT/NDF-
htt // i ih /ft 1/NDF RT/NDF
RT%20Documentation.pdf
Questions / contact info

John Kilbourne M.D.


MD
kilbourj@mail.nlm.nih.gov

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