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Tazocin not in Open BNF #19

Open drcjar opened 11 years ago

davidmiller commented 11 years ago

So the bug portion of this is that the extraction of drug names doesn't stretch to branded alternatives and put them into the relevant place in the index...

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drcjar commented 11 years ago

yep

this is an important bug because outside of a research setting it could threaten pose a threat patient safety since tazocin is very different from pentazocin

davidmiller commented 11 years ago

Shure - so you have two things here

  1. Not everything I wanted was in the OpenBNF
  2. I searched for something, an exact match wasn't found, so it returned an inexact match.
  3. can be addressed by wholesale re-writing the BNF scraper. This needs to be done anyway. 2 is a feature.

If you search for tazocine, get pentazocine, go through to that & don't realise, how are we supposed to distinguish from the case where you miss of the 'p', get as far as searching entazo && really did mean pentazocine?