December Release - 12/07/2015

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
Gold Standard Drug Database	GS	10/28/2015
Medi-Span Master Drug Data Base	MDDB	11/04/2015
Multum MediSource Lexicon	MMSL	11/01/2015
Micromedex RED BOOK	MMX	11/02/2015
FDA Structured Product Labels	MTHSPL	11/27/2015
FDB MedKnowledge (formerly NDDF Plus)	NDDF	11/04/2015
Veterans Health Administration National Drug File	VANDF	10/21/2015

 

The following sources have not been updated in this release:

Source Name	SAB	Date Updated
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System	ATC	2015
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)	MSH	08/18/2015
CMS Formulary Reference File	MTHCMSFRF	2014
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
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	353
Active BPCKs	407
Active SCDs	19856
Active SBDs	10675
Active RXNORM MINs	3989
Active RXNORM INs	10687
Active RXNORM PINs	2480
Active RXNORM BNs	6445
Active RXNORM DFs	113
Obsolete GPCKs	140
Obsolete BPCKs	124
Obsolete SCDs	15125
Obsolete SBDs	9982
Obsolete RXNORM MINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM INs	0
Obsolete RXNORM PINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM BNs	9324
Obsolete RXNORM DFs	53
Editor-suppressed SCDs	1307
Editor-suppressed SBDs	1168
Source-asserted NDCs	1167418
Distinct source-asserted NDCs	547116
SAB=RXNORM NDCs	217070
Distinct SAB=RXNORM NDCs	217070

Last Reviewed: December 7, 2015