RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, and Gold Standard Drug Database. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary.

Prefix

rxnorm

Alternative Prefixes

RXCUI

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in RxNorm should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]{1,7}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

221058   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from RxNorm should match this regular expression:
^rxnorm:[0-9]{1,7}$

Example CURIE

rxnorm:221058

References

• Publication RxNorm: prescription for electronic drug information exchange
• Publication RxTerms - a drug interface terminology derived from RxNorm.
• Publication Normalized names for clinical drugs: RxNorm at 6 years.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for rxnorm.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE rxnorm: is used to demonstrate the provides available for rxnorm. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.