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I am trying to access the INDICATIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, ADVERSE REACTIONS, and WARNINGS field using the dailymed API. http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/
However, I cannot seem to find information on their web services page on how to do this. https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/app-support-web-services.cfm
I see there are ways to access NDC's, drug names, classes etc, but what I need is the actual monograph-type information that I mentioned above.
You are looking for the /spls/{SETID} endpoint documented at https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/webservices-help/v2/spls_setid_api.cfm
For example: http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls/1efe378e-fee1-4ae9-8ea5-0fe2265fe2d8.xml
Note, this is not super easy to parse. Welcome to SPL!
If you are looking for something simple and clean, check out my previous answer at ' Query medicine descriptions API ' and take a look at suggestion #1 which is MedlinePlus (also from HHS/NIH/NLM).
Skram is correct, you'll need to use the API for the full XML of the SPL.
Then you can use the FDA's Structured Product Labeling Section Headings (LOINC) to get the LOINC code referring to the sections you are looking for.
For example, you'd probably want:
34067-9 INDICATIONS & USAGE SECTION
34070-3 CONTRAINDICATIONS SECTION
34084-4 ADVERSE REACTIONS SECTION
34066-1 BOXED WARNING SECTION
54433-8 USER SAFETY WARNINGS SECTION
43685-7 WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS SECTION
34071-1 WARNINGS SECTION
You can find these sections by checking for the above codes in the "code" attribute of "code" nodes. For example:
<code code="34067-9" codeSystem="2.16.840.1.113883.6.1" displayName="INDICATIONS & USAGE SECTION"/>
Be careful, sometimes there are nested sections.
This to OpenFDA (beta) call may also be helpful. Text sections are from the labeling, with text labels instead on LOINC codes. Smaller return to parse.
https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?search=set_id:f7deaf21-a14a-4f9d-a576-ece333219482
