Using National Drug Codes and Drug Knowledge Bases to Organize Prescription Records from Multiple Sources

摘要

PurposePharmacy systems contain electronic prescription information needed for clinical care, decision support, performance measurements and research. The master files of most pharmacy systems include National Drug Codes (NDCs) as well as the local codes they use within their systems to identify the products they dispense. We sought to assess how well one could map the products dispensed by many pharmacies to clinically oriented codes via the mapping tables provided by Drug Knowledge Base (DKB) producers.