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ltscomputingllc / faersdbstats

Generate safety signal statistics from FDA FAERS data
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Manual mapping #18

Open abduazizR opened 1 year ago

abduazizR commented 1 year ago

Hi,

First of all, thank you for making this repo public. Second, I have a question about some of the steps in the instruction document

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What did you mean by "some %"? Are there specific medications we should manually map but for other medications we don't? And how much % should we manually map?

Thanks

leeevans commented 1 year ago

@abduazizR Using USAGI to manually map drug names to RxNorm concepts is a manually intensive process. The instruction is saying that it makes sense to focus on the most frequently used drugs. You can decide the 'cut-off' point where the additional manual work of mapping the drug names for infrequently used drugs is not worth the extra manual effort.

abduazizR commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the answer. May I ask how you have dealt with drugs with different doses in terms of mapping? For example, for Humira, there are multiple doses. Did you choose one of the doses or have mapped it to all the doses in the index vocabulary?