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Keywords and corresponding codes are assigned to each Pharmaprojects record to indicate the therapeutic activity of the product described. Standardized vocabulary is an adaptation of that developed for the European Pharmaceutical Market Research Association (EPhMRA).

Each controlled therapeutic activity keyword or phrase has a corresponding code in a hierarchical, cascaded classification scheme. Classification codes are cascaded so no truncation is needed to retrieve the entire class.

Note: In IMS R&D Focus codes are not cascaded and a ? must follow the code to retrieve the entire class.