06/02/2008

RxNorm Vocabulary

June Release
Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Scope of RxNorm

Section 3: Preservation of Content and Meaning

Section 4: Drug Delivery Devices

Section 5: Normalizing NDC codes

5.1     Examples of NDC code normalizations

5.2     Examples of RXNSAT.RRF entries

Section 6: Propagating NDC codes in RxNorm

Section 7: Duplicating Source Asserted Atoms

Section 8: Drug Dose Forms and the Modified Format

8.1     Deprecating Syrup and Elixir Dose Forms

Section 9: Release Types and Explanation

9.1     Release Counts

9.2     Character Encoding

9.3     RxNorm Release File Format

9.4     RxNorm Conventions

9.5     Uses of Concept and Atom Identifiers

Section 10: Data Files - RxNorm Rich Release Format (RXNRRF)

10.1    Columns and Rows

10.2    Descriptions of Each File

10.3    RXNDOC.RRF

10.4    RXNCONSO.RRF

10.5    RXNSAT.RRF

10.6    RXNSTY.RRF

10.7    RXNREL.RRF

10.8    RXNSAB.RRF

10.9    RXNATOMARCHIVE.RRF

10.10    RXNCUICHANGES.RRF

Section 11: Database Creation Automation

11.1    Oracle database

11.2    MySQL database

Last reviewed: 30 May 2008
Last updated: 30 May 2008
First published: 02 June 2008
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