January Release - 01/04/2016

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
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System	ATC	2016
Gold Standard Drug Database	GS	12/11/2015
Medi-Span Master Drug Data Base	MDDB	12/02/2015
Multum MediSource Lexicon	MMSL	12/01/2015
Micromedex RED BOOK	MMX	11/30/2015
FDA Structured Product Labels	MTHSPL	12/24/2015
FDB MedKnowledge (formerly NDDF Plus)	NDDF	12/09/2015
Veterans Health Administration National Drug File - Reference Terminology	NDFRT	01/04/2016
NDFRT FDASPL relationships	NDFRT_FDASPL	01/04/2016
NDFRT FMTSME relationships	NDFRT_FMTSME	01/04/2016
Veterans Health Administration National Drug File	VANDF	11/19/2015

 

The following sources have not been updated in this release:

Source Name	SAB	Date Updated
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)	MSH	08/18/2015
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	352
Active BPCKs	407
Active SCDs	18734
Active SBDs	10678
Active RXNORM MINs	3989
Active RXNORM INs	10736
Active RXNORM PINs	2489
Active RXNORM BNs	6435
Active RXNORM DFs	112
Obsolete GPCKs	142
Obsolete BPCKs	126
Obsolete SCDs	16271
Obsolete SBDs	10007
Obsolete RXNORM MINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM INs	0
Obsolete RXNORM PINs	0
Obsolete RXNORM BNs	9356
Obsolete RXNORM DFs	54
Editor-suppressed SCDs	1341
Editor-suppressed SBDs	1203
Source-asserted NDCs	1172563
Distinct source-asserted NDCs	550074
SAB=RXNORM NDCs	217984
Distinct SAB=RXNORM NDCs	217984

Last Reviewed: January 4, 2016