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Table 1 Selection of the ATC and MeSH classes suitable for the instance-based alignment

From: A framework for assessing the consistency of drug classes across sources

 

ATC

MeSH

Candidate drugs in terminology

2,730

4,153

Corresponding drug entities in RxNorm (IN, PIN)

2,239

5,274

Drug entities after normalization of PINs to INs

2,215

4,112

Restriction to clinically-significant ingredients

1,706

2,339

Restriction to clinically-significant ingredients present in both terminologies

1,685

1,685