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EDQM (the European Directorate for Quality of Medicines and Healthcare - a directorate of the Council of Europe) is a leading organisation that protects public health by enabling the development, supporting the implementation and monitoring the application of quality standards for safe medicines and their safe use. These quality standards are recognised as a scientific benchmark and applied worldwide.

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The Terms are designed to be used in marketing authorisation applications, medicinal product labelling (including the summary of product characteristics (SmPC), and in electronic communications about medicines.  Additionally, in the last 5 years, the Standard Terms have been used for related purposes such as adverse event reporting (pharmacovigilance) and clinical trials.  But, whilst the primary use is in the regulatory domain, the Standard Terms bring information to the patient/user/prescriber through their use in SmPC, and it is this that underpins the requirement to map the EDQM Pharmaceutical Dose Forms to the Pharmaceutical Dose forms in SNOMED CT, where dose form is one of the definitional attributes of the Clinical Drug and Real Clinical Drug concepts.

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