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Catherine Duclos1, Catherine Letord2, Elisabeth Serrot Damatte3
1Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, APHP, Avicenne, Santé Publique, Sorbonne Université INSERM, Limics, 93017, Bobigny, France.
Abstract:
Having an up-to-date, enforceable national list of antibiotic medications contributes to the consistent use of real-world data. Thanks to its logical model, SNOMED CT offers a structure that allows the identification of substances with antibiotic properties; however, there is no French extension for medications. The goal is to leverage SNOMED CT and the alignments between the French drug nomenclature and SMS substances (ISO 11238) to identify the antibiotic medications available in France. As a result, 186 antibiotic substances were correctly identified, 7 were incorrectly identified, and 11 were not found.
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