Quality assurance of chemical ingredient classification for the National Drug File - Reference Terminology

Ling Zheng, Hasan Yumak, Ling Chen, Christopher Ochs, James Geller, Joan Kapusnik-Uner, Yehoshua Perl

Abstract: Highlights•A new Ingredient Abstraction Network to summarize NDF-RT’s Chemical Ingredients.•A new quality assurance methodology based on the Ingredient Abstraction Network.•Concepts in chemical ingredient groups with multiple parent groups have more errors.•Complex chemical ingredient groups have a higher error rate.•Two common patterns of errors were found for chemical ingredient concepts in NDF-RT.