Description

Get the RxTerms display name for the RxNorm drug product specified by rxcui.

RxTerms includes concepts of term types SCD, SBD, BPCK, and GPCK.

Parameters

Note that HTTP requires that query parameters be "URL encoded". For full information on URL encoding, please refer to IETF RFC 3986, "Uniform Resource Identifier".

Output structure

Results are available as either XML or JSON.

• The XML result has the root element rxtermsdata. It is described in the XML Schema for the RxTerms API; the relevant element structure is summarized below. Elements that would be empty might be left out.

• The JSON result is an object {...}, analogous to the content of the XML rxtermsdata. Fields that might occur multiple times in the XML are expressed as an array. Fields that would be empty might be null or left out. Numbers are expressed as strings.

Both XML and JSON results follow the same outline:

rxtermsdata

Root element in XML, or anonymous object in JSON

displayGroup

RxTerms concept ID and display name

rxcui

(Always empty)

displayName

RxTerms DISPLAY_NAME field

Example: RxTerms display name

XML: https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/REST/RxTerms/rxcui/198440/name

JSON: https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/REST/RxTerms/rxcui/198440/name.json

An XML result is shown below.

<rxtermsdata>
    <displayGroup>
        ...
        <displayName>Acetaminophen (Oral Pill)</displayName>
    </displayGroup>
</rxtermsdata>