WHO Drug Dictionary

The WHO Drug Dictionary is an international classification of medicines created by the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and managed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre.[1]

It is used by pharmaceutical companies, clinical trial organizations and drug regulatory authorities for identifying drug names in spontaneous ADR reporting (and pharmacovigilance) and in clinical trials.[2] Created in 1968 and regularly updated, since 2005 there have been major developments in the form of a WHO Drug Dictionary Enhanced (with considerably more fields and data entries) and a WHO Herbal Dictionary, which covers traditional and herbal medicines.

Dictionary Versions

Version Release Date
WHODD Version 99.2 March 1998
WHODD 2003 (June) 1st June 2003
WHODD 1st June 2006 1st June 2006
WHODD 1st June 2007 1st June 2007
WHODD 1st June 2008 1st June 2008
WHODD 1st June 2009 1st June 2009

The WHO Drug Dictionary has previously been abbreviated as 'WHODRL' and may still be referenced as such.

References

  1. ↑ Lindquist M. Vigibase, the WHO Global ICSR Database System: Basic Facts. Drug Information Journal, 2008, 42:409-419.
  2. ↑ Alghabban A. Dictionary of Pharmacovigilance. Pharmaceutical Press, London, 2004.

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