November Release - 11/02/2015

This release of RxNorm is consistent with the 2015AB UMLS Metathesaurus release. For additional information about RxNorm releases, including scripts for loading the RxNorm data into Oracle and MySQL databases, read the RxNorm technical documentation.

Sources

The following sources have been updated since the previous RxNorm release:

Source Name	SAB	Date Updated
Medi-Span Master Drug Data Base	MDDB	09/30/2015
Multum MediSource Lexicon	MMSL	10/01/2015
Micromedex RED BOOK	MMX	09/28/2015
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)	MSH	08/18/2015
FDA Structured Product Labels	MTHSPL	10/27/2015
FDB MedKnowledge (formerly NDDF Plus)	NDDF	10/07/2015
Veterans Health Administration National Drug File - Reference Terminology	NDFRT	11/02/2015
NDFRT FDASPL relationships	NDFRT_FDASPL	11/02/2015
NDFRT FMTSME relationships	NDFRT_FMTSME	11/02/2015
Veterans Health Administration National Drug File	VANDF	09/25/2015

 

The following sources have not been updated in this release:

Source Name	SAB	Date Updated
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System	ATC	2015
Gold Standard Drug Database	GS	09/14/2015
CMS Formulary Reference File	MTHCMSFRF	2014
US Edition of SNOMED CT (drug information)	SNOMEDCT_US	07/31/2015

 

Data Changes

This release includes many changes to dose forms for injectable products as part of the ongoing prescribable names (TTY=PSN) work.

Data Counts

Term Type or Attribute	Number
Active GPCKs	348
Active BPCKs	399
Active SCDs	19751
Active SBDs	10583
Active RXNORM MINs	3982
Active RXNORM INs	10623
Active RXNORM PINs	2461
Active RXNORM BNs	6364
Active RXNORM DFs	113
Obsolete GPCKs	145
Obsolete BPCKs	128
Obsolete SCDs	15192
Obsolete SBDs	10078
Obsolete RXNORM MINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM INs	0
Obsolete RXNORM PINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM BNs	9368
Obsolete RXNORM DFs	53
Editor-suppressed SCDs	1273
Editor-suppressed SBDs	1141
Source-asserted NDCs	1160673
Distinct source-asserted NDCs	543004
SAB=RXNORM NDCs	210032
Distinct SAB=RXNORM NDCs	210032

Last Reviewed: November 2, 2015