World Health Organisation Drug Dictionary (WHO-DD)
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A World Health Organisation Drug Dictionary (WHO-DD) is a Medical Coding Dictionary that is used for coding and classifying clinical/medical information related to approved drugs, over-the-counter medication, and experimental drugs being studied in drug development clinical trials.
- AKA: WHO Drug Dictionary, WHODrug Global Terminology.
- Context:
- Website: https://who-umc.org/whodrug/whodrug-global/
- It was created by the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and managed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
- It can also be used to identify drug names and evaluate medicinal product information (including active ingredients, anatomical and therapeutic classifications).
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART),
- International Classification of Diseases 9 Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM),
- Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA),
- SNOMED CT Controlled Vocabulary,
- World Health Organisation Adverse Reactions Terminology (WHO-ART).
- See: Drug Dictionary, Clinical Terminology Standard, Medical Database, Medical Ontology, Clinical Research Glossary, Clinical Data Standard, Medical Classification System, Adverse Effect, Medical Treatment, Medical Diagnosis, Clinical Trial.
References
2022a
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Drug_Dictionary Retrieved:2022-3-13.
- The WHO Drug Dictionary is an international classification of medicines created by the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and managed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. [1] It is used by pharmaceutical companies, clinical trial organizations and drug regulatory authorities for identifying drug names in spontaneous ADR reporting (and pharmacovigilance) and in clinical trials. [2] Created in 1968 and regularly updated, since 2005 there have been major developments in the form of a WHO Drug Dictionary Enhanced (with considerably more fields and data entries) and a WHO Herbal Dictionary, which covers traditional and herbal medicines. Since 2016 all of the WHODrug products have been available in a single subscription service called WHODrug Global. [3]
- ↑ Lindquist M. Vigibase, the WHO Global ICSR Database System: Basic Facts. Drug Information Journal, 2008, 42:409-419.
- ↑ Alghabban A. Dictionary of Pharmacovigilance. Pharmaceutical Press, London, 2004.
- ↑ WHODrug Global web page
2022b
- (WHO-UMC, 2022) ⇒ https://who-umc.org/whodrug/whodrug-global/ Retrieved:2022-3-13.
- QUOTE: WHODrug Global is the international reference for medicinal product information and it is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. With its unique drug code hierarchy and extensive coverage, it provides a consistent drug dictionary with exact terminology when coding concomitant medications. The dictionary is used to identify drug names and evaluate medicinal product information, including active ingredients and products' anatomical and therapeutic classifications, from nearly 150 countries.
WHODrug data covers both conventional medicines and herbal remedies. The conventional medicines include prescription-only products, over-the-counter (OTC) and pharmacist-dispensed preparations, as well as biotech and blood products, diagnostic substances and contrast media. Products and substances registered by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are also routinely recorded.
- QUOTE: WHODrug Global is the international reference for medicinal product information and it is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. With its unique drug code hierarchy and extensive coverage, it provides a consistent drug dictionary with exact terminology when coding concomitant medications. The dictionary is used to identify drug names and evaluate medicinal product information, including active ingredients and products' anatomical and therapeutic classifications, from nearly 150 countries.
2010
- (Babre. 2010) ⇒ Deven Babre (2010). "Medical Coding in Clinical Trials". In: Perspectives in clinical research, 1(1), 29.
- QUOTE: World Health Organisation Drug Dictionary (WHODRUG): This is a dictionary maintained and updated by Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC). This dictionary is most comprehensive dictionary which has medicinal product information. It is used by drug regulatory authorities, various pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs). The dictionary covers medicinal product names – proprietary and non- proprietary – from more than 90 countries. WHODRUG dictionary has undergone a lot of development. Currently we have of three dictionary types [1]
- ↑ WHO Drug Dictionary Sample Getting Started © UMC Products & Services, 2006.
2009
- (Wallberg, 2009) ⇒ Magnus Wallberg (2009). "WHO Drug Dictionary".
- QUOTE: General Information
- The WHO Drug Dictionary contains data from 1968 onwards
- The content today is originating mostly from IMS and National Drug names References
- No entries are deleted even though they are withdrawn from the market, since old case reports might be coded with these products.
- QUOTE: General Information