RxNorm Full
Description
This is the full RxNorm monthly data release. Requires (free) UMLS license.
SageRx spotlight: RxNorm
Or as we lovingly refer to it: RxNorm Reconfigured
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Rough ERD
Airflow DAG
rxnorm
Table info
rxnorm_rxnatomarchive
rxnorm_rxnconso
rxnorm_rxncui
rxnorm_rxncuichanges
rxnorm_rxndoc
rxnorm_rxnrel
rxnorm_rxnsab
rxnorm_rxnsat
rxnorm_rxnsty
Examples
100 RxNorm ingredients
Source links
Download
RxNorm Files
The license agreement required for the RxNorm releases is available from: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html. The terms and conditions for using RxNorm data is available on the RxNorm Terms of Service page: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/termsofservice.html. RxNorm files are pipe-delimited text files in Rich Release Format (RRF) with the extension ".RRF".
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Zipped RRF files - 1 zip file
API
RxNorm API - APIs
The RxNorm API is a web service for accessing information from the RxNorm data set. This API documentation assumes familiarity with the RxNorm documentation. Each function covers RxNorm Concepts within a certain scope.
rxnav.nlm.nih.gov
Update frequency
SageRx only updates RxNorm monthly with the full release. Data from RxNorm is also available from NLM as weekly incremental releases.
- Weekly - available every Wednesday (except the Wednesdays before the May and November RxNorm monthly releases).
- Monthly - available the first Monday of every month or the first Tuesday if Monday is a U.S. Federal holiday.
Licensing
Requires a free UMLS license. Follow instructions in the README in the repo for where to put license information.
RxNorm Technical Documentation
This documentation provides detailed information about the technical aspects of RxNorm. RxNorm, a standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs, is produced by the National Library of Medicine. In this context, a clinical drug is a pharmaceutical product given to (or taken by) a patient with a therapeutic intent.
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Reference info
RxNorm Overview
RxNorm is two things: a normalized naming system for generic and branded drugs; and a tool for supporting semantic interoperation between drug terminologies and pharmacy knowledge base systems. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) produces RxNorm. Purpose of RxNorm Hospitals, pharmacies, and other organizations use computer systems to record and process drug information.
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Appendix 1 - RxNorm Relationships (RELA)
'{24 (Acetaminophen 500 MG / Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride 25 MG Oral Tablet [Tylenol PM]) / 50 (Acetaminophen 500 MG Oral Tablet [Tylenol]) } Pack [Tylenol Extra Strength Day and Night Pack]' tradename_of '{24 (Acetaminophen 500 MG / Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride 25 MG Oral Tablet) / 50 (Acetaminophen 500 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack'
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Appendix 4 - RxNorm Attributes
Attribute of Semantic Clinical Drug (SCD) or Semantic Branded Drug (SBD) atom referring to the active ingredient. The RXCUI of the SCDC responsible for the active ingredient value is also included in curly brackets as of September 2021.
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RxNav Applications
RxNav has a number of views (tabs) which display related information of the selected concept. The RxNorm Graph View is the default view and displays the selected concept with its related RxNorm concepts. The RxNorm Properties View contains the RxNorm properties related to the concept.
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The above diagram shows many of the bidrectional SAB=RXNORM relationships that connect concepts together.
The above diagram shows some of the bi-drectional SAB=RXNORM relationships that relate to packs (TTY = GPCK or BPCK).
Most SAB=RXNORM relationships exist between concepts, which means they link one RXCUI to another RXCUI. There are also SAB=RXNORM relationships that link RXAUIs to other RXAUIs. These atom-level relationships link synonyms (TTY=SY, TTY=TMSY, TTY=PSN) to other SAB=RXNORM names within the same concept.
On this page
- RxNorm Full
- Description
- Rough ERD
- Airflow DAG
- Table info
- Examples
- 100 RxNorm ingredients
- Source links
- Download
- API
- Update frequency
- Licensing
- Reference info