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Table 6 Reasons for non-normalization of drug names by MedEx

From: Standardizing adverse drug event reporting data

Reasons

No.

MedEx reasons

25

AERS entry reasons

75

 Foreign brand names

41

 Typo

19

 Unspecified names

8

 Herbs

4

 Uncovered domestic drug

1

 New drug

1

 Non-drug

1

Total

100

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Journal of Biomedical Semantics

ISSN: 2041-1480