Re: Public Domain Drug Database?
> Hi,
>
> I've been toying with the idea of writing a medication rating system
> that is an online web application in which users are able to give
> comments about medications that they have used. One of it's features
> is to allow people to enter in new medications if it is not currently
> available. For this, though, they must enter in certain requirements,
> such as the name of the drug and it's manufacturer.
That would make for an easy way to retrieve basic drug
information. Albeit, I suspect, it would be of low quality and
would have to be double-checked to be of use.
> The goal was to make it useful in that if a person were considering
> taking a medication they could easily check the comments of other
> people and it see it's "satisfaction rating" from -10 - 10 (negatives
> being "this is a bad drug!").
I wonder what implications on (real, scientific !) quality of
care this would have !?! Would it increase of decrease
compliance ?? Very interesting indeed.
> If it gained any popularity, the drug
> information itself would naturally grow as more and more users enter
> in new medications to rate.
A mere listing of available drugs is most likely relatively
easy to obtain. It'll more an order of magnitude more
difficult to get interaction data, dosage, packaging info etc.
Any thoughts ?
Karsten
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