Automatic identification and normalization of dosage forms in drug monographs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Each day, millions of health consumers seek drug-related information on the Web. Despite some efforts in linking related resources, drug information is largely scattered in a wide variety of websites of different quality and credibility.

Methods

As a step toward providing users with integrated access to multiple trustworthy drug resources, we aim to develop a method capable of identifying drug's dosage form information in addition to drug name recognition. We developed rules and patterns for identifying dosage forms from different sections of full-text drug monographs, and subsequently normalized them to standardized RxNorm dosage forms.

Results

Our method represents a significant improvement compared with a baseline lookup approach, achieving overall macro

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3305679 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature