Re: [Gnumed-devel] (FreeDIams) Re: Interactions engine available with Canadian drugs database

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:05:53PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > Here is more info for anyone interested re the FreeDIams
> > schema as it relates to interactions and which maybe makes
> > clearer that it will not matter which drugs will happen to
> > be included in any particular "Country X" drugs db provided
> > that
> 
> > 1) its ATCs are included in that db AND
> 
> Assuming the abovementioned fallback ATC -> INN were to be
> implemented any new database might be able to gain some
> advantage from the fact that quite a few INNs will be
> identical in related languages.

One would likely only want to calculate matches across
languages if the INNs match letter by letter (or perhaps
after removing a stray "e" at the end).

Karsten
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