Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Methods

• De-Identified
  • 10,000 SCRIPT New Rx's
    • Transmitted to retail pharmacies by SureScripts
    • Representative NDC codes
  • 10,000 SCRIPT Renewal Requests
    • Transmitted to Allscripts by retail
    • Actual NDC codes
• Three independent attempts to match NDC to the RxNorm generic clinical drug concept (SCD)
  • First DataBank, MediSpan, RAND