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Find a List of Companies Working on a Particular Therapeutic Class of Drugs?

TOPIC: R&D databases summarize information about forthcoming products and provide additional drug nomenclature for follow-up in medical bibliographic files. IMS R&D Focus (File 445) provides information on scientific and commercial developments in international pharmaceutical research and development. File 445 also highlights new drugs in research, changes in development phases, and licensing opportunities. In this example, you want to find companies that are working in the area of antiarthritic drugs that are in clinical trials.

You will use the therapeutic class code for antirheumatic drugs (M2). Then using the RANK command you can retrieve a list of companies that have drugs in this therapeutic class in a stage of development beyond the preclinical stage. Companies with most entries will be listed first.

 

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 445
SELECT PHASE OR CLINICALS OR IND OR PRE()REGISTRATION OR NDA
SELECT S1 AND TC=M2?
RANK CO


HOW TO...



1. BEGIN File 445, which contains data on drugs in clinical trials worldwide.

2. SELECT keywords for new drugs and clinical trials and OR them together.

3. SELECT the therapeutic class code for antirheumatic drugs (M2). Use truncation to retrieve narrower classes.

?b 445

File 445:IMS R&D Focus 1991-2006/Aug W2
       (c) 2006 IMS Health & Affiliates

      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------
?S PHASE OR CLINICALS OR IND OR PRE()REGISTRATION OR NDA
     37829  PHASE
       438  CLINICALS
      4004  IND
      4027  PRE
      3873  REGISTRATION
      3335  PRE(W)REGISTRATION
      3251  NDA
S1   40871  PHASE OR CLINICALS OR IND OR PRE()REGISTRATION OR NDA

?SELECT S1 AND TC=M2?
     40871  S1
        41  TC=M2?
S2      21  S1 AND TC=M2?


4. RANK
the company name (CO).

A ranked list displays of those working in the area of antiarthritic or antirheumatic drugs.

5. To see a record from a company, use the View command (view 1/format/record) or select the entry you want to view and exit the RANK menu. Type EXS to execute the saved rank number(s).


?RANK CO
Started processing RANK
Completed Ranking 21 records
DIALOG RANK Results
--------------------
RANK: S2/1-21   Field: CO=  File(s): 445
(Rank fields found in 21 records -- 14 unique terms) Page 1 of 2
RANK No.  Items  Term
--------  -----  ----
   
1        4   DONG-A
    2        3   BAKER NORTON
    3        3   NUVO
    4        2   DIMETHAID
    5        2   FAES
    6        2   PHARMOS
    7        1   KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOG
    8        1   PFIZER
P =  next page      Pn = Jump to page n
P- = previous page  M =  More Options     Exit = Leave RANK
To view records from RANK, enter VIEW followed by RANK number,
format, and item(s) to display, e.g., VIEW 2/9/ALL.
Enter desired option(s) or enter RANK number(s) to save terms.
?exit

RANK results will be erased; have you saved all the terms of interest? (YES/NO)

?Y

Exiting...  (no terms were saved)

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