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Find Data about New Drugs in Development by Therapeutic Class?
TOPIC: R&D databases summarize information about forthcoming products and provide additional drug nomenclature for follow-up in medical bibliographic files. In Pharmaprojects (File 128)*, you can use the therapeutic class to find a category of drugs and then narrow the search to a clinical trial phase worldwide, if desired. In this example, you want to find antiarthritic drugs in Phase III clinical trials in the U.S. in 2006.
You will use the therapeutic class codes for antiarthritic drugs. File 128 uses an adaptation of a therapeutic classification scheme developed by the European Pharmaceutical Market Research Association. To see a list of the codes use HELP CODE 128.
*(Subscriber access.)
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 128
SELECT TC=M2
SELECT S1 AND USA(S)phase()III
SELECT S1 AND S2
SELECT S3/2006
Click S4 > Tasks > Picklist
Check record(s) > select Output format
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 128, which contains data on drugs in clinical trials worldwide.
2. SELECT the therapeutic class code for antiarthritic drugs (M2). Note: No truncation is needed because Pharmaprojects automatically selects narrower classes.
3. SELECT the status for worldwide and clinical trials Phase III. Use the (S) connector so they are in the same field.
4. Combine sets and narrow to the current year.
5. In the Set Links pane, click S4 > Tasks > Picklist to see the first 10 records in FREE format (drug names). |
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6. Click the check box(es) for the drug(s) you want to see in more detail, select the Output/Format and click OUTPUT.
Note that Full format in this database is Format 19.
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The record contains a great amount of detail including the drug name, synonyms and company names.
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Details of the Phase III clinical trials
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Status of the drug in countries around the world
Note the therapeutic class M2z for antiarthritic drugs.
In this example, we typed out only one record. To see all drugs in Phase III, you would type all records in S2.
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