Questions tagged [openfda]
Questions and answers surrounding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's OpenFDA program.
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Query medicine descriptions API
I am looking for publicly available API for querying medicine's descriptions. For example, if I supply Carbidopa/Levodopa or Sinemet the expected return data (in json or xml format) is a simple ...
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Now I have an API key, how do I access OpenFDA?
The link I am told to use, https://api.fda.gov, redirects me to http://api.data.gov, which does NOT have an FDA option!
In any case, that site has no place to enter the API key I got on the OpenFDA ...
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OpenFDA API : can we count on several fields?
Is it possible to get counts nested by 2 fields ? For example adverse events by patient sex and reaction type. The result would be something like a 2 dim array.
edit (since this account doesn't have ...
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Where is the list of fields available through the openFDA API?
I was wondering how to create a query based off the examples, and the main question I have is where do the patient.drug.openfda.pharm_class_epc and
patient.reaction.reactionmeddrapt come from?
I ...
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openFDA: Can we print results for multiple patients at once?
Is there any way to get multiple patients' results in one output? I've noticed it defaults to show one patient's results at a time - and skipping allows you to see other patients - but is there any ...
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How to get all the DrugList
I want to fetch all the drugList, lets say -> DrugName, Manufacturer, Prescribed for, Description.
I tried using https://api.fda.gov/drug/event.json?count=patient.drug.openfda.manufacturer_name.exact ...
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List of United States cities
I'm looking to get some data of this page
http://www.greatschools.org/california/san-francisco/schools/?gradeLevels=e&page=2
To do it I need to create the links in this format:
http://www....
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Search for deaths by a specific drug
I am not a programmer, so I am trying to understand the search methods to use when looking at OpenFDA. I am currently using the generic form for Reported Reactions. How do you get more the 10 adverse ...
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Multiple attributes available in a single OpenFDA query
Can I pull a single query that counts & breaks down adverse events reported for multiple attributes such as by year and by drug and by manufacturer? I've had success pulling counts by individual (...
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How quickly after FDA approval will adverse events be listed on openFDA?
I cannot seem to find information on what the lag time is between FDA approval (drug on market) and results for adverse events being listed on openFDA. Does anyone have an idea of the timeline?
For ...
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openFDA endpoints not updated in over 2 months. Has this project been abandoned?
We are specifically interested in the "Devices › Adverse Events" data which until recently seemed to get updated monthly, usually within 2 weeks of the end of the month. We realize that this is a ...
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Seriousness values on OpenFDA
In looking at OpenFDA, I'd like to know the range of values for results.seriousnessother, results.seriousnesshospitalization, results.serious, and results.primarysource.qualification, as well as what ...
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Is there anyway to get the NDC code for a drug from the drug enforcement report fields?
Given the fields acquired from a drug enforcement report:
country
reason_for_recall
classification
recall_number
recalling_firm
initial_firm_notification
code_info
product_quantity
event_id
...
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Python crashing when trying to read zipped json files [closed]
I downloaded the 2015 adverse drug events data from openfda and I want to run some analysis with python. I am a python newbie, but have become comfortable with the scikit-learn libraries, but I cannot ...
