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 MedDRA Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities

Keywords

biomedical science 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 9 mappings to external registries for meddra with 5 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE meddra:10015919 is used to demonstrate the provides available for meddra. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.