medExtractR (version 0.4.1)

rxnorm_druglist: List of Medications

Description

A dictionary that contains a vector of medication names, primarily derived from RxNorm.

Usage

rxnorm_druglist

Format

A vector with character strings for competing drug names.

Details

RxNorm is provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This dictionary uses the February 1, 2021 RxNorm files directly downloaded from https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/rxnormfiles.html.

This list contains ingredient and brand names, cleaned to remove expressions that likely are ambiguous (e.g., ‘today’ or ‘date’). This product uses publicly available data courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; NLM is not responsible for the product and does not endorse or recommend this or any other product.

References

Nelson SJ, Zeng K, Kilbourne J, Powell T, Moore R. Normalized names for clinical drugs: RxNorm at 6 years. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jul-Aug;18(4)441-8. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000116. Epub 2011 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 21515544; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3128404.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(rxnorm_druglist)
# }