rx_rxcui_name: Get RxCUIs for a ame in RxNorm.

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Search for a name in the RxNorm data set and return the RxCUIs of any concepts which have that name as an RxNorm term or as a synonym of an RxNorm term. Search options include exact match searching or normalized string search. See RxNorm.

Usage

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rx_rxcui_name(name, srclist = NULL, allsrc = 0, search = 0)

Arguments

name

Search string.

srclist

List of the source vocabulary names to use. Only used when allsrc is set to 1. See the sourcetypes() example for the valid source vocabularies. If not specified, all sources are used.

allsrc

Flag indicating whether to consider all terms in the RxNorm data set (=1) or only terms which are either from the RxNorm vocabulary or related synonyms from other vocabularies (=0).

search

Number indicating the type of search to be performed. If set to 0 (the default), exact match search will be performed. If set to 1, a normalized string search will be done. When search = 2, then an exact match search will be done, and if no results are found, a normalized search will be done.

Value

RxCUIs


mpancia/RxNormR documentation built on May 23, 2019, 6:25 a.m.