Thanks Sean,

I am just looking to duplicate the default functionality of cTAKES (with
the addition of one more dictionary from UMLS- HPO) and wanted to make sure
I had not inadvertently left out something by using a custom dictionary.


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 10:11 AM Finan, Sean <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> The 4. default dictionary no longer filters rxnorm to only contain orange
> book terms.
>
> If you want to filter your rxnorm terms using orange book it is possible
> by filtering your umls db before using the dictionary creator or by culling
> rxnorm terms in the created dictionary.
>
> It might be easier to just ignore non-orange book cuis during analysis
> (post-ctakes).
>
>
> https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/approved-drug-products-therapeutic-equivalence-evaluations-orange-book
>
> Sean
> ________________________________________
> From: Jeffrey Miller <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 9:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RxNorm and Orange book [EXTERNAL]
>
> Hi,
>
> Does cTAKES 4.0.0 still make use of the Orange Book and RxNorm_Index as
> indicated in the docs here:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cwiki.apache.org_confluence_display_CTAKES_cTAKES-2B3.1-2BDictionaries-2Band-2BModels&d=DwIBaQ&c=qS4goWBT7poplM69zy_3xhKwEW14JZMSdioCoppxeFU&r=fs67GvlGZstTpyIisCYNYmQCP6r0bcpKGd4f7d4gTao&m=AM_4Qph_pbOQcEpv6TwWx_Rs0Yr4GNuWRGh_COiU4lI&s=RNX2CGey1QeHhYIL6xr2Gj9PQuH_3BEbWGBHolx1fLM&e=
> ?
>
> I ask because we are building our own dictionary via the dictionary creator
> GUI and have included RxNorm from the UMLS and wasn't sure what role the
> Orange Book and index play and if I need to do something special to include
> them when not using the ctakesresources hosted on sourceforge.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>

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