09/07/2010
Version 2010-4
RxNorm Vocabulary
Table of Contents
- Section 1: Introduction
- Section 2: Scope of RxNorm
- Section 3: Preservation of Content and Meaning
- 3.1 Source Vocabularies
- Section 4: Ambiguity in RxNorm Source Data
- Section 5: Drug Delivery Devices
- Section 6: Normalizing NDC codes
- 6.1 Examples of NDC code normalizations
- 6.2 Examples of RXNSAT.RRF entries
- Section 7: Propagating NDC codes in RxNorm
- 7.1 NDC data counts
- Section 8: UNII codes in RxNorm
- Section 9: Duplicating Source Asserted Atoms
- Section 10: Drug Dose Forms and the Modified Format
- 10.1 Syrup and Elixir Dose Forms
- Section 11: Release Types and Explanation
- 11.1 Character Encoding
- 11.2 RxNorm Release File Format
- 11.3 RxNorm Conventions
- 11.4 Uses of Concept and Atom Identifiers
- 11.5 Concepts and Concept Identifiers
- Section 12: Data Files - RxNorm Rich Release Format (RXNRRF)
- 12.1 Columns and Rows
- 12.2 Descriptions of Each File
- 12.3 RXNDOC.RRF
- 12.4 RXNCONSO.RRF
- 12.5 RXNSAT.RRF
- 12.6 RXNSTY.RRF
- 12.7 RXNREL.RRF
- 12.8 RXNSAB.RRF
- 12.9 RXNCUI.RRF
- 12.10 RXNATOMARCHIVE.RRF
- 12.11 RXNCUICHANGES.RRF
- 12.12 RXNCONSOOCD.RRF
- 12.13 RXNSATOCD.RRF
- 12.14 RXNSTYOCD.RRF
- Section 13: Database Creation Automation
- 13.1 Main scripts subdirectory
- 13.1.1 Oracle database
- 13.1.2 MySQL database
- 13.2 OCD scripts subdirectory
- 13.2.1 Oracle database
- 13.2.2 MySQL database
- Appendix 1: RxNorm Relationship Mappings
- Appendix 2: RxNorm Dose Forms with Definitions
Last Reviewed: September 7, 2010