OCRx: Canadian Drug Ontology.


Journal

Studies in health technology and informatics
ISSN: 1879-8365
Titre abrégé: Stud Health Technol Inform
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9214582

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
27 May 2021
Historique:
entrez: 27 5 2021
pubmed: 28 5 2021
medline: 1 6 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a Canadian drug ontology (OCRx), built to provide a normalized and standardized description of drugs that are authorized to be marketed in Canada. OCRx aims to improve the usability and interoperability of drugs terminologies for a non-ambiguous access to drugs information that is available in electronic health record systems. We present the first release of OCRx that is described in Web Ontology Language and aligned to the Identification of Medicinal Product (IDMP) standards. For comparison purposes, OCRx is mapped to RxNorm, its US variant.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34042767
pii: SHTI210182
doi: 10.3233/SHTI210182
doi:

Substances chimiques

Pharmaceutical Preparations 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

367-371

Auteurs

Jean Noel Nikiema (JN)

Research Center, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Department of Management, Evaluation and Health Policy, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Man Qing Liang (MQ)

Research Center, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Department of Management, Evaluation and Health Policy, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Philippe Després (P)

Département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

Aude Motulsky (A)

Research Center, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Department of Management, Evaluation and Health Policy, School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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