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To prevent medical accidents caused by mix-up, the confirmation of usage should be the key to determining error. If a computerized order entry system for medicines shows information concerning therapeutic indications to doctors, they can subsequently avoid mix-ups of medicines such as the case in question. To investigate data which can be utilized for a database in such an entry system, we study the description patterns of the sentences in the dosage regimen portion of the SGML formatted package inserts data via a method based on the text mining technique. Based on this result, we also propose the data structure of dosage regimen information, which will be the basis of a drug information database to ensure safe usage.
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Kimura, M., Furukawa, H., Tsukamoto, H., Tasaki, H., Kuga, M., Ōkura, M., Tsuchiya, F.: The Analysis of Questionnaires About Safety of Drug Use, the Application of Text Mining to Free Description Questionnaires. The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics 41(5), 297–305 (2005)
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Kimura, M., Okada, K., Nabeta, K., Ohkura, M., Tsuchiya, F. (2009). Analysis on Descriptions of Dosage Regimens in Package Inserts of Medicines. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction. Human Interface 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_59
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