| DESCRIPTION |
RxNorm is a standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs. RxNorm is
levels.
There is one row in this file for every source in RxNorm that is
represented in this RxNorm release.
produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). In this context,
a clinical drug is a pharmaceutical product given to (or taken by) a
patient with a therapeutic or diagnostic intend. The name of the drug in
RxNorm combines its ingredients, dosage strength, and form.
The RxNorm Source Information file contains a subset of the data
distributed by NLM in the RXNSAB.RRF file. This file contains the sources
for each of the RxNorm Files loaded into VistA and their restriction
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