World Health Organisation Adverse Reactions Terminology (WHO-ART)

A World Health Organisation Adverse Reactions Terminology (WHO-ART) is a Medical Coding Dictionary that is used for coding clinical/medical information related to adverse drug reactions.

• AKA: WHO-ART Terminology, WHO-ART Dictionary.
• Context:
  • It was developed and is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring.
  • It is a 4-Level Hierarchical Clinical Terminology.
• Example(s):
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART),
  • International Classification of Diseases 9 Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM),
  • Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA),
  • SNOMED CT Controlled Vocabulary,
  • World Health Organisation Drug Dictionary (WHO-DD).
• See: Clinical Terminology Standard, Medical Database, Medical Ontology, Clinical Research Glossary, Clinical Data Standard, Medical Classification System, Adverse Effect, Medical Treatment, Medical Diagnosis, Clinical Trial.

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References

2022a

• (NIH-NLM, 2022) ⇒ https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/current/WHO/index.html Retrieved:2022-03-13.
  • QUOTE: The WHO Adverse Drug Reaction Terminology (WHO-ART) was developed and is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring.

    Purpose

    WHO-ART is used for coding clinical information related to adverse drug reactions.

    Description

     WHO-ART is a four-level hierarchical terminology, which begins at the body system/organ level classes. These classes consist of broad grouping terms, which consist of more specific preferred terms. WHO also contains commonly used terms, called included terms, that act as entry terms for the preferred terms.

2022b

• (Wkipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOART Retrieved:2022-03-13.
  • QUOTE: The WHO Adverse Reactions Terminology (WHOART) is a dictionary meant to serve as a basis for rational coding of adverse reaction terms. The system is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. The system is no longer actively maintained.

2010

• (Babre. 2010) ⇒ Deven Babre (2010). "Medical Coding in Clinical Trials". In: Perspectives in clinical research, 1(1), 29.
  • QUOTE: There are several standardized medical coding dictionaries in the market; however five dictionaries listed below are used for coding:
    • COSTART - Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms.
    • ICD9CM - International Classification of Diseases 9 Revision Clinical Modification.
    • MedDRA - Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities.
    • WHO-ART - World Health Organisation Adverse Reactions Terminology.
    • WHO-DDE - World Health Organisation Drug Dictionary Enhanced.

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