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[Gnumed-devel] Re: Difficulty collapsing drug companies' substances


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Difficulty collapsing drug companies' substances
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:42:07 +0100

> and that the composition of all strings is completely arbitrary. The
> ingredients are named with all variety of salts, and any number of other
> arbitrary clarifiers
...
>, and this prevents any reliable matching to INN (even in the same
> language).

I know. That's why I suggest using an ATC code to identify substances
(even if ONLY to identify).

> It also confounds efforts to lookup and assign (other than
> manually) an ATC to many of  ingredients. Eric's FreeToolBox module will at
> least help.

Yes, hopefully.

Karsten

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