unable to search by proprietary drug name e.g tazocin

[drcjar]

should return PIPERACILLIN WITH TAZOBACTAM which is what tazocin is

[davidmiller]

We currently don't have either a good mapping or an exhaustive list. Extraction isn't really a good long-term option - the time costs of scraping are high.

Crowdsource it?

On 14 May 2013 14:27, Carl Reynolds notifications@github.com wrote:

should return PIPERACILLIN WITH TAZOBACTAM which is what tazocin is

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[simonh10]

I've already done this analysis as part of my attempt to do generic/branded budget comparison. I'll see if I've got it somewhere as a json dump. It was done by finding the lowest equivalent priced product and assigning that to the generic option.

[drcjar]

Using other sources e.g www.bnf.org it's quick to look up a drug that we don't match correctly on e.g Tazocin

I'd be happy to manually add if we need to know when we fail and we don't at present https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/14 and even if we did we'd miss incorrect matches https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/19 .....

[davidmiller]

Could be misremembering, but weren't there concerns raised about the er, clinical accuracy of that mapping?

On 14 May 2013 14:33, Simon Hargreaves notifications@github.com wrote:

I've already done this analysis as part of my attempt to do generic/branded budget comparison. I'll see if I've got it somewhere as a json dump. It was done by finding the lowest equivalent priced product and assigning that to the generic option.

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[simonh10]

It's as accurate as the BNF codes are. Everything that follows a pattern of e.g. 0409020C0__ACAC is equivalent in chemical formulation, dosage and delivery form.

[drcjar]

seems to handle drugs behind https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/19 and https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/13 well

[davidmiller]

Great.

Now all we need is an original scrape of the BNF data that takes BNF codes as well.

Could prob write something to imply it from the breadcrumb data.

On 14 May 2013 14:53, Carl Reynolds notifications@github.com wrote:

seems to handle drugs behind #19https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/19and

13 https://github.com/nhshackday/mobileformulary/issues/13 well

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[drcjar]

could raise as an issue here https://github.com/tomtaylor/bnf-html if are absent?

[davidmiller]

Last time I looked the raw codes weren't on the page anywhere - not an issue with the scrape but the content.

Could raise with the BMJ ? :)

Codes are semantic, which means we can write something to figure it out... Should have enough in the database currently.

On 14 May 2013 15:38, Carl Reynolds notifications@github.com wrote:

could raise as an issue here https://github.com/tomtaylor/bnf-html if are absent?

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