The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) was developed by the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH)to provide a standardised medical terminology to facilitate sharing of regulatory information internationally for medical products used by humans. It is used within regulatory processes, safety monitoring, as well as for marketing activities. Products covered by the scope of MedDRA include pharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccines and drug-device combination products. The MedDRA dictionary is organized by System Organ Class (SOC), divided into High-Level Group Terms (HLGT), High-Level Terms (HLT), Preferred Terms (PT) and finally into Lowest Level Terms (LLT).

Prefix

meddra

Alternative Prefixes

MeDRA MEDRA Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities MedDRA

Keywords

biomedical science disease medicine ontology preclinical studies

Links

Homepage

Contact

MedDRA MSSO

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

10015919   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology should match this regular expression:
^meddra:\d+$

Example CURIE

meddra:10015919

Publications

• 2000 The use of a medical dictionary for regulatory activities terminology (MedDRA) in prescription-event monitoring in Japan (J-PEM)
• 1999 The medical dictionary for regulatory activities (MedDRA)

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MDRFRE/$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 10015919 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.