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Peters, Lee, and Bodenreider, Olivier. "Using the RxNorm web services API for quality assurance purposes." AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium vol. (2008): 591-5.
Peters L, Bodenreider O. Using the RxNorm web services API for quality assurance purposes. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 06;591-5. PMID: 18999038; PMCID: PMC2656097.
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 06;591-5.

Using the RxNorm web services API for quality assurance purposes.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium

Lee Peters, Olivier Bodenreider

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  1. U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. {lpeters|obodenreider}@mail.nih.gov

PMID: 18999038 PMCID: PMC2656097

Abstract

Auditing large, rapidly evolving terminological systems is still a challenge. In the case of RxNorm, a standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs, we argue that quality assurance processes can benefit from the recently released application programming interface (API) provided by RxNav. We demonstrate the usefulness of the API by performing a systematic comparison of alternative paths in the RxNorm graph, over several thousands of drug entities. This study revealed potential errors in RxNorm, currently under review. The results also prompted us to modify the implementation of RxNav to navigate the RxNorm graph more accurately. The RxNav web services API used in this experiment is robust and fast.

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