Using the RxNorm web services API for quality assurance purposes

Lee Peters1, Olivier Bodenreider

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

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