Normalized names for clinical drugs: RxNorm at 6 years

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-448

  Nelson, Stuart J ^a   Zeng, Kelly ^a   Kilbourne, John ^a   Powell, Tammy ^a   Moore, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELECOXIB; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIAZEPAM; PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICINE; PRESCRIPTION; TABLET FORMULATION; VETERAN;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 79959652930     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000116     Document Type: Article

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