NHANES Multum Lexicon

[clairblacketer]

Continuing the discussion from Multum Drug Vocabulary:

Multum Drug Vocabulary

Friends:

We get the Multum codes from RxNorm. They use it to build RxNorm, it’s one of the source for Clinical and Branded Drugs (SCD, SBD). They used to be good to map data during ETL. If this is no longer the case (like it isn’t with Medi-Span and FDB-coded durgs), you will need a translation table from the codes provided to RxNorm, vs the codes you have in the data, unfortunately. You can read about what we do have here.

Maybe @Overhage can help. I’ll send him a separate note as well.

Continuing the discussion from Multum Drug Vocabulary:

Multum Drug Vocabulary

Friends:

We get the Multum codes from RxNorm. They use it to build RxNorm, it’s one of the source for Clinical and Branded Drugs (SCD, SBD). They used to be good to map data during ETL. If this is no longer the case (like it isn’t with Medi-Span and FDB-coded durgs), you will need a translation table from the codes provided to RxNorm, vs the codes you have in the data, unfortunately. You can read about what we do have here.

Maybe @Overhage can help. I’ll send him a separate note as well.

I am reviving this post as I have more information. The Multum drug vocabulary used by NHANES is the Multum Lexicon which is more of classification system. All information, including the entire vocabulary is located here. Has anyone used this before?

@Dymshyts can we incorporate this into the vocabulary? I’ll also post on github.

[Christian_Reich]

@clairblacketer:

What is the use case, Clair? I doubt we can follow the stipulation in the license agreement. All we can do is to map it over and work out all classification there. Or what do you have in mind?

[clairblacketer]

@Christian_Reich even just mapping the lowest level codes to RxNorm ingredients would be a big improvement. Right now @jswerdel, @ericaVoss, and I are re-working the NHANES-ETL to bring it into V5. They way they store drugs is all at the ingredient level, using the Multum Lexicon to classify them. In reality we may not need the entire Lexicon, just the ingredients mapped to RxNorm. I could probably do it fairly quickly using WhiteRabbit but I was love a more permanent solution using the vocabulary.