Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART)

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A Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART) is a Medical Coding Dictionary that can be used for coding, filing, and retrieving post-marketing adverse drug and biologic experience reports.



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  • (Wkipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSTART Retrieved:2022-03-13.
    • QUOTE: The Coding Symbols for a Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART) was developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the coding, filing and retrieving of post-marketing adverse reaction reports.[1] COSTART provides a method to deal with the variation in vocabulary used by those who submit adverse event reports to the FDA. Use of this dictionary allowed for standardization of adverse reaction reporting towards the FDA in a consistent way.

      COSTART was last updated in 1999. It has been replaced by the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities, MedDRA.

  1. "Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART) Source Information". Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®). U.S. National Library of Medicine. 23 November 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

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Out of the above five, two widely used medical coding dictionaries used for coding medical terms generated in clinical trials are MedDRA and WHO-DDE. To maintain uniformity in reporting a term is next to impossible in any given clinical trial. However for a coder it is a challenging task to ensure that the term recorded/reported on data collection instrument (CRF/eCRF) is coded appropriately.