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.
rxnorm
Local identifiers in RxNorm should match this
regular expression:
^[0-9]{1,7}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from RxNorm should match
this regular expression:
^rxnorm:[0-9]{1,7}$
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
6 mappings to external registries for rxnorm
.
Registry Name | Metaprefix | External Prefix |
---|---|---|
AberOWL | aberowl |
RXNORM
|
BioContext | biocontext |
RXCUI
|
Biolink Model Registry | biolink |
RXCUI
|
BioPortal Prefixes | bioportal |
RXNORM
|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.36pf8q
|
Wikidata Property
|
wikidata |
P3345
|
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.
Name | Metaprefix | URI |
---|---|---|
RxNorm | rxnorm |
https://mor.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/search?searchBy=RXCUI&searchTerm=221058 |
Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/rxnorm:221058 |