Re: [Gnumed-devel] re drug ref

[Alexander Caldwell]

Hi,

Bob Shepard has a postgres port of the Multum Database running. It has
all drugs the FDA approves in the U.S.  It has all the available preprations, 
but it 
does not have dosing info for a specific patient or things like indications, 
contraindications, adverse reactions etc.  It uses ndc codes for indexing. It 
has not been regularly updated either. You can check it out at:

 Host 206.127.114.202 
 Port 5432 
 database lexiconp 
 Username tkfp 
 Password tkfp

 The one you are mentioning  sounds like a web server based version.  Do you 
have the URL? Would be interested in looking at it. 

Alex

On 04 May 2003 21:05:57 +1000
David Guest <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 22:57, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > On 03 May 2003 09:03:28 +1000
> > sjtan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > There is an american family medicine database which has lots of 
> > > info EXCEPT dosing. I played around with the url parameters, and
> > > it depends on a numeric drug id , which would make the site probably
> > > accessible by a robot if you knew the drug name - id table. 
> > 
> > Certainly you could generate a link automatically, as a temporary
> > measure until we get our own monographs. I can't see what [enforceable]
> > objections they could have to this. We could also offer a "caching" feature
> > for offline use, although this is probably stretching the legality. 
> > 
> > > I suppose the point being is there any problems with having dosage info
> > > on a publically available website, 
> > 
> > Can't see why. Presumably an over-active fear of ligitation. 
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> > P.S. can we have the URL? 
> 
> Ian
> 
> Alex Caldwell has been doing this for a few years and may even be using
> the same on-line database that Sian mentions. 
> 
> David 
> 
> 
>