Helen, Looking at RxNorm via RxNav http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/download/rxnav/ Here the brand names below can be mapped to ingredients. Looking up the ingredients in SNOMED shows their classes. So it seems that adequately combining the two can do the job. Regards, Ronald
############################################################### Ronald Cornet, PhD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/ 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 16:34 To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org Subject: [COI] CT#8 Drug Information Needed for Test Case Query Eric As a minimal requirement to get the test case working In the CT#8 [1], we need to identify the following drug information. I did some text search in your Medicaiton_DE.txt [2] file and found some examples of drug names under each category 1. Metfomin, Insulin secretagogue, or Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors drug names: Metformin, Repaglinide, Gliclazide, Glipizide, Acarbose, Miglitol 2. Insulin therapy drug names: Aimsco Insulin Syringe, 3. Rosiglitazone or Proglitazone drug names: Avandia, Actos 4. corticosteriods treatment drug names: Prelone, Medrol, Deltasone, Kenalog, etc 5. weightloss drugs drug names: Xenical, Meridia, Tenuate, Tepanil, Adipex-P, Fastin, Phentermine HCl , etc 6. nonsteroidal anti-inlammatory drugs drug names: Ibuprogen, Naproxen Sodium , Diclofenac Potassium, Diclofenac Sodium, etc 7. anticoagulants drug names: Coumadin, Plavix, Heparin, etc 8. uricosuric medication drug names: Benuryl, Benemid, Probalan, Anturane Your Medication.DE file seems to contain drug name and package information, but as you can see, there is no "drug" class relationship that represents the above relationship. I doubt we can find such categorization relationship in RxNorm. For the demonstration purpose, we can construct a small "drug" ontology to cover the above concepts and drug names. But the ideal way is to use an existing and well developed drug ontology for this purpose. Does anyone on the list know such ontology? Kind Regards, [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ClinicalObservationsInteroperability/SPARQL8.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2008/04/DiabeticPatientsDataSet/Medication_DE.txt Helen Chen | Agfa HealthCare Senior Researcher | HE/Advanced Clinical Applications Research T +1 519 746 6210 Ext.3186 | M +1 519 498 6244 Agfa HealthCare Inc., 455 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON N2L 3X2, Canada http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/ <http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/> ________________________________ Click on link to read important disclaimer: http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/maildisclaimer <http://www.agfa.com/healthcare/maildisclaimer>
