A Semantic Normal Form for Clinical Drugs in the UMLS

11/12/2002 (See also paper.)


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A Semantic Normal Form for Clinical Drugs in the UMLS

What is a Clinical Drug?

RxNorm Goals: Names for Clinical Drugs

Example

The RxNorm Plan

UMLS Relationships

Clinical Drug “Graph”

RxNorm Milestones Achieved

RxNorm Experiment 1

RxNorm Experiment 2

Current Status

Observations

Future Steps

Summary

What Problems Might This Solve?

 Author: Stuart J Nelson, MD

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