Creation of a master table for checking indication and contraindication of medicine from a knowledge base linked with a thesaurus

J Med Syst. 2004 Dec;28(6):561-73. doi: 10.1023/b:joms.0000044958.66816.a1.

Abstract

To develop a system for checking indication and contraindication of medicines in prescription order entry system, a master table consisting of the disease names corresponding to the medicines adopted in a hospital is needed. The creation of this table requires a considerable manpower. We developed a Web-based system for constructing a medicine/disease thesaurus and a knowledge base. By authority management of users, this system enables many specialists to create the thesaurus collaboratively without confusion. It supports the creation of a knowledge base using concept names by referring to the thesaurus, which is automatically converted to the check master table. When a disease name or medicine name was added to the thesaurus, the check table was automatically updated. We constructed a thesaurus and a knowledge base in the field of circulatory system disease. The knowledge base linked with the thesaurus proved to be efficient for making the check master table for indication/contraindication of medicines.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Calcium Channel Blockers / therapeutic use
  • Cardiovascular Diseases / drug therapy
  • Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems*
  • Contraindications
  • Drug Prescriptions
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Internet
  • Japan
  • Medical Informatics Computing*
  • Medication Errors / prevention & control*
  • Medication Systems, Hospital / organization & administration*
  • Software Design*
  • Vocabulary, Controlled*

Substances

  • Calcium Channel Blockers