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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
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