TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of Herbal and Dietary Supplement Resource Term Coverage
AU - Manohar, Nivedha
AU - Adam, Terrance J.
AU - Pakhomov, Serguei V.
AU - Melton, Genevieve B.
AU - Zhang, Rui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is increasingly popular in places like North America and Europe where western medicine is primarily practiced. People are consuming herbal and dietary supplements along with western medications simultaneously. Sometimes, supplements and drugs react with one another via antagonistic or potentiation actions of the drug or supplement resulting in an adverse event. Unfortunately, it is not easy to study drug-supplement interactions without a standard terminology to describe herbal and dietary supplements. This pilot study investigated coverage of supplement databases to one another as well as coverage by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and RxNorm for supplement terms. We found that none of the supplement databases completely covers supplement terms. UMLS, MeSH, SNOMED CT, RxNorm and NDF-RT cover 54%, 40%, 32%, 22% and 14% of supplement concepts, respectively. NDF-RT provides some value for grouping supplements into drug classes. Enhancing our understanding of the gap between the traditional biomedical terminology systems and supplement terms could lead to the development of a comprehensive terminology resources for supplements, and other secondary uses such as better detection and extraction of drug-supplement interactions.
AB - The use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is increasingly popular in places like North America and Europe where western medicine is primarily practiced. People are consuming herbal and dietary supplements along with western medications simultaneously. Sometimes, supplements and drugs react with one another via antagonistic or potentiation actions of the drug or supplement resulting in an adverse event. Unfortunately, it is not easy to study drug-supplement interactions without a standard terminology to describe herbal and dietary supplements. This pilot study investigated coverage of supplement databases to one another as well as coverage by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and RxNorm for supplement terms. We found that none of the supplement databases completely covers supplement terms. UMLS, MeSH, SNOMED CT, RxNorm and NDF-RT cover 54%, 40%, 32%, 22% and 14% of supplement concepts, respectively. NDF-RT provides some value for grouping supplements into drug classes. Enhancing our understanding of the gap between the traditional biomedical terminology systems and supplement terms could lead to the development of a comprehensive terminology resources for supplements, and other secondary uses such as better detection and extraction of drug-supplement interactions.
KW - Biomedical terminology
KW - Complementary and alternative medicine
KW - Herbal and nutritional supplements
KW - RxNorm
KW - UMLS
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-785
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-785
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 26262159
AN - SCOPUS:84952048419
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 785
EP - 789
BT - MEDINFO 2015
A2 - Georgiou, Andrew
A2 - Sarkar, Indra Neil
A2 - de Azevedo Marques, Paulo Mazzoncini
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015
Y2 - 19 August 2015 through 23 August 2015
ER -