JPH08275988A - Method for verifying mutual action of medicine in prescription - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To verify the presence of the interaction between medicines described in a prescription. CONSTITUTION: An interacting medicine name display means for outputting the medicine name list of a partner having a possibility of interaction to the input of a medicine name, and a synonymous medicine name display means for outputting a medicine name list for instructing the same medicine as the inputted medicine are preliminarily prepared. Two medicine names are extracted from a prescription, one is set to a medicine name to be examined, and the other to a medicine name to be compared. The medicine name to be examined is inputted to the interacting medicine name display means to provide the interaction information for examination. The medicine name to be compared is also inputted to the synonymous medicine name display means to provide the synonymous medicine name information for comparison. The interaction information for examination is retrieved with the medicine name in the synonymous medicine name information for comparison, and when the medicine name in the synonymous medicine mane information for comparison is contained in the interaction information for examination, it is judged that the occurrence of interaction between the medicines described in the prescription is possible.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for verifying the presence or absence of mutual interactions between pharmaceutical products written in a prescription.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A system for verifying drug interactions in computer software used in the medical field must register in advance a pair of drugs that may cause interactions with the drug to be verified. I have to.

However, in the medical field, it takes a great deal of effort for the medical staff to register which medicines and medicines interact with each other. Even if you register once, new drug information is generated every day, and it is even more labor intensive to keep this information up to date.

In addition, the latest information on drugs, including interactions, is supplied from the pharmaceutical companies to the world as attached documents of drugs. In the pharmaceutical package insert, the description of interactions is unique to each pharmaceutical company, and interactions are not standardized in a 1: n relationship, so unless some method is applied, the latest information is available. Verification of drug interactions based on is difficult and difficult to achieve.

[0005]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] When attempting to verify drug interactions, the conventional method of registering pairs of drug interaction information requires enormous amount of maintenance work for the latest information. Further, when the conventional technique is applied when the text information is to be searched, the words in the text must be registered as keywords in advance, but this also requires a large amount of work and is not feasible.

An object of the present invention is to solve such problems and to verify with high productivity whether or not there is an interaction between pharmaceutical products described in a prescription. Furthermore, it is possible to support the verification of the interaction by using the text information of the package insert of the drug, which is provided as the latest information regarding the interaction, as it is.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The method for verifying drug interaction in a prescription according to the present invention, when verifying the presence or absence of interaction between drug products described in a prescription, the input of the name of an arbitrary drug , The same drug as the input drug is input to the input drug name display means that outputs the name list of the drug of the other party who may interact with the input drug and the input of the name of any drug. Prepare in advance a synonymous drug name display means that outputs a list of drug names to point to, extract two drug names from the prescription, one as the drug name for consideration, and the other as the drug name for comparison, and the interaction drug Enter the name of the drug under consideration into the name display means, and output a list of drug names that may interact with the name of the drug under consideration,
This is used as the interaction information for consideration, and the name of the drug to be compared is input to the synonymous drug name display means to output a list of drug names that point to the same drug as the drug to be compared, and this is used as the object of comparison. Synonymous drug name information,
Search in the interaction information under consideration with the drug name in the synonymous drug name information for comparison, and if the drug name in the synonymous drug name information for comparison is included in the interaction information under review, the The drugs listed are those that are judged to have the potential to interact with each other and displayed, and the combination of the two drug names extracted from the prescription is all the drugs listed in the prescription. It is characterized in that a combination is carried out for.

[0008] Here, the synonymous drug name display means cuts out a word indicating the same drug as the target drug of the package insert from the sentence information relating to the interaction of the package insert of the drug, and the drug name included in the extracted word is included. Please refer to the package synonym dictionary when outputting a list of drug names that point to the same drug as the entered drug, after having previously registered as a package synonym dictionary with the name of the drug subject to the package insert. More preferably. It is more preferable that the prescription is a plurality of prescriptions.

That is, according to the present invention, whether or not an arbitrary word (a) exists for an arbitrary sentence (a) is determined as an arbitrary word (a) without preparation for keyword registration. The full-text search function, which is a search method that can search for a sentence (A) as a sentence in which is present, is used.

A drug that may cause an interaction during one prescription by full-text searching for the existence of an arbitrary drug name or another word meaning a drug in the sentence regarding drug interaction Realized the support of so-called prescription audit to check whether or not exist.
The sentence information a-TXT regarding the interaction of the drug a is searched with the sentence information a-TXT by the full-text search for the sentence information a-TXT with the names b ′ and b ”which are synonymous with the names b ′ and b of other drugs b in the same prescription. Search for the presence of b'and b "in TXT.

If it exists, the possibility of interaction is pointed out by clearly indicating to the user where it exists. If it does not exist, nothing is done, suggesting that there is little possibility of interaction.

Corresponding to the generic name of drug a, the word a'having the same meaning as the generic name is selected from the sentence information of the interaction regarding drugs other than a and registered as a synonym dictionary. Now, it is possible to improve the search hit rate to support interaction verification.

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[Example] Assume that interaction verification support is provided for drug a, drug b, and drug c. Let def be the sentence about each interaction of abc. A synonym of a is a'a ", a synonym of b is b ', and a synonym of c is c'c".

In the first search, a full-text search is executed with a, a'or a "in the sentence of ef. If there is a hit in this search, the description that may cause interaction with drug a is ef. It is meant to be present in the user, and indicates to the user the place where a, a'or a "appears in ef.

In the second search, the full-text search is executed with b or b'in the df sentence. If there is a hit in this search, it means that there is a description in df that may cause an interaction with drug b. The place where b and b'appear in df is clearly indicated to the user.

In the third search, a full-text search is executed with c, c'or c "in the sentence of de. If there is a hit in this search, the description that may interact with drug c is de. It is meant to be present in the user, and the place where c, c ′ or c ″ appears in de is clearly indicated to the user. The user is shown the possibility of interaction through the above three searches, and the final decision is made by the user.

Also, while the doctor is considering the prescription, when the patient tries to administer the drug x, he or she wants to find a drug which may be taken by another patient in another hospital or other department, which is expected to interact. Assume time. An interaction sentence containing the drug name x and the synonyms x'and x "is searched in the drug document database. In this case also, the full-text search function is used. It is assumed that the interaction sentence is hit.The interaction sentence of the medicines y and z is clearly indicated to the doctor, and the doctor is taking the medicines y and z or the medicines of the related system to the patient, or has been taken in the past, etc. As a result, you will be asked to change the prescription or inform the dosage.

[0018]

According to the present invention described above, it is possible to verify, with good productivity, whether or not there is an interaction between pharmaceutical products described in a prescription. Furthermore, it becomes possible to support the interaction verification by using the text information of the package insert of the drug, which is provided as the latest information regarding the interaction, as it is.

That is, it becomes possible to support the verification of drug interactions by using textual information on drug interactions that is not always standardized, and effectively utilize the drug package insert information created by a pharmaceutical company in the medical field. Will be possible. At present, this package insert is the latest source of information on the few interactions that exist in the world, and its use makes it possible to check interactions based on the latest information.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. When verifying the presence or absence of interaction between pharmaceutical products written in a prescription, the drug of a partner that may interact with the input drug in response to the input of the name of any drug. An interactive drug name display means for outputting the name list of the above and a synonymous drug name display means for outputting a list of drug names indicating the same drug as the input drug are prepared in advance for inputting the name of any drug. Then, two drug names are extracted from the prescription, one is used as the drug name for consideration, and the other is used as the drug name for comparison. The name list of drugs that may interact with the drug name is output, and this is used as the interaction information to be examined. Enter the product name, output a list of drug names that point to the same drug as the comparison drug name, and use this as the comparison target synonymous drug name information. If you search in the information and if the interaction information under consideration includes the drug name in the synonymous drug name information for comparison, there is a possibility that interactions will occur with the drug products listed in the prescription. The combination of two drug names that are determined and displayed and that are extracted from the prescription is that the combination is performed for all drugs listed in the prescription. Drug interaction verification method. 2. The synonymous drug name display means cuts out a word indicating the same drug as the drug targeted by the package insert from the sentence information regarding the interaction of the drug package insert, and extracts the drug name included in the extracted word. Refer to the package synonym dictionary when outputting a list of drug names that point to the same drug as the entered drug, after preregistering it as a package synonym dictionary with the name of the drug subject to the package insert. The method for verifying drug interaction in a prescription according to claim 1, wherein. 3. The method for verifying drug interaction in a prescription according to claim 1, wherein the prescription is a plurality of prescriptions.