Comparing drug classification systems.
An essential quality of drug classification systems is the ability to assign medications to a structured hierarchy for categories such as mechanism of action, physiological effects, and therapeutic indications. No single classification system can meet all of these needs; however, there should be consistency among those that group by the same underlying principals. We discovered discrepancies in how drugs with multiple therapeutic indications are classified among four widely used schemas.
Mahoney
Anne
A
Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, PA, USA.
Evans
Jonathan
J
D004346:Drug Information Services; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000145:classification*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000145:classification*; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency; D014481:United States
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations