RxNorm Technical Documentation - 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 (to resolve NDC conflicts)
- Section 10: Quantitative and Qualitative Factors
- 10.1 Syrup and Elixir Dose Forms
- 10.2 Extended Release Products
- 10.3 Qualitative Distinctions
- 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
- 11.6 RxNorm Current Prescribable Content
- 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
- Section 13: Database Creation Automation
- 13.1 Main scripts subdirectory
- 13.1.1 Oracle database
- 13.1.2 MySQL database
- 13.2 Prescribe scripts subdirectory
- 13.2.1 Oracle database
- 13.2.2 MySQL database
- Section 14: RxNorm in a Database System
- 14.1 Primary Keys for Each File
- 14.2 Sample Database Queries
- Section 15: RxNorm for Drug Application Interfaces
- Appendix 1 - RxNorm Relationships (RELA)
- Appendix 2 - RxNorm Dose Forms (TTY=DF) with Definitions
- Appendix 3 - RxNorm Dose Form Groups (TTY=DFG)
- Appendix 4 - RxNorm Attributes
- Appendix 5 - RxNorm Term Types (TTY)
Last Reviewed: January 24, 2020