RxNav: Providing Standard Drug Information

11/13/2006


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Table of Contents

RxNav: Providing Standard Drug Information

Outline

Drug vocabulary standardization: RxNorm

Motivation

Concepts

Normalized forms

Generic vs. Brand

Relations among drug entities

RxNorm database

Visualization and processing of drug information: RxNav

RxNav

RxNav demo

RxNav: Search features

Future work: Integrated drug information

Integration

Equivalent strings and codes across sources

Links to applications or vocabularies

MeSH: Pharmacologic actions

DailyMed: Drug label information

MyMedicationList

More information

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MeSH Section

Authors: Kelly Zeng; Olivier Bodenreider; John Kilbourne; and Stuart J. Nelson, MD

Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/