Quality assurance of chemical ingredient classification for the National Drug File - Reference Terminology.

ABSTRACT: The National Drug File - Reference Terminology (NDF-RT) is a large and complex drug terminology consisting of several classification hierarchies on top of an extensive collection of drug concepts. These hierarchies provide important information about clinical drugs, e.g., their chemical ingredients, mechanisms of action, dosage form and physiological effects. Within NDF-RT such information is represented using tens of thousands of roles connecting drugs to classifications. In previous studies, we have introduced various kinds of Abstraction Networks to summarize the content and structure of terminologies in order to facilitate their visual comprehension, and support quality assurance of terminologies. However, these previous kinds of Abstraction Networks are not appropriate for summarizing

SUBMITTER: Zheng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5652327 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature