MED-RT Addition?

Vocabulary Users
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According to this NLM bulletin the NDF-RT vocabulary and it’s RxNorm associations have been deprecated starting this month. It also mentions a move to MED-RT as a replacement. Are there plans to include MED-RT in our catalog?

tagging @Christian_Reich, @Dymshyts

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Yes. Working on it. They made a couple suboptimal choices. For example, a class of agonist of a substance is a child of that substance, and all drugs are children of that. So, Vitamin K has the class Vitamin K agonists as a child, and all agonist drugs are children of that. In NDF-RT, Vitamin K and all its agonistic siblings were children of the class. Trying to figure out how to deal with that. Urgh.

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Hi - I see the MEDRT is not available for download - can you tell me the current status of it w/r to Athena? Thanks

 "MEDRT	Currently not available"
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Hi @Donna:

It’s not in the Standardized Vocabularies, and hence not in Athena.

It is available through the services provided by the NLM. Or do you have an OMOP-based use case?