Title
A Reference Terminology for Drugs
Abstract
GALEN technology for re-usable terminologies using formal classification is being applied to the creation and maintenance of a reference terminology for drugs. GALEN's techniques are being used to address specific deficiencies of existing drug classifications that make it difficult to create and maintain guidelines to support prescribing in the care of patients with chronic diseases. The reference terminology is in two parts; firstly, a re-usable and automatically-classified 'ontology' is built with GALEN technology; this describes generic drugs, their composition in terms of chemicals and chemical classes, their actions, indications and interactions. Secondly, a 'dictionary' of prescribable proprietary products is integrated with this ontology. The result is a drug resource designed to support both the traditional uses of a drug knowledge base (e.g. prescribing and messaging), and the specialised demands of guideline authoring and execution.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1999
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
knowledge base
Field
DocType
Issue
Ontology,Drug resource,Terminology,Knowledge management,Knowledge base,Guideline,Medicine
Conference
SUPnan
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1067-5027
18
9.62
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. D. Solomon122958.09
Chris Wroe21128122.54
A Rector312026.54
Jeremy E. Rogers48923.92
J. L. Fistein5189.62
Peter D. Johnson6189.62