Drug dictionary for the "fears" package?

[shuangxia2024]

Hello,
I am glad to see that your team developed the "faers" package. It's meaningful step forward in the Pharmacovigilance filed.
I am curious if you used some dictionary for drug standardization in "faers" package?
For example, the DiAna could be a good choice.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40264-023-01391-4

Thank you for your reading.

Best regards,
Shuang

[MadDERt]

Thank you for your kind words about the faers package. We greatly appreciate your interest in its development.

Regarding your question about drug standardization dictionaries: the faers package currently utilizes the RxNorm API and the Drugs@FDA database for drug standardization, rather than DiAna. We selected these resources because of their broad industry acceptance, regular updates, and extensive coverage of FDA-approved medications. Additionally, they offer well-documented APIs that facilitate automated integration.

Thank you for introducing DiAna to us. It appears to be a promising tool for drug name standardization and disambiguation. We are certainly open to exploring additional standardization approaches that could enhance the package's functionality. We would welcome any further insights you might have regarding DiAna's advantages or potential use cases in pharmacovigilance workflows.

[shuangxia2024]

Thank you very much for your detailed reply. I worked on FAERS dataset when I was doing my master in Central South University (2021-2024). I think the concern is the data quality. I know a team is working on the data cleaning work for FAERS data: https://github.com/fusarolimichele/DiAna_cleaning
Maybe you could check it. Good luck.

Best regards,
Shuang Xia

[MadDERt]

Thank you very much for your further sharing! I will carefully study the GitHub repository you shared. If we can integrate some of DiAna's efficient cleaning logic into the faers package as an optional module, it would greatly benefit related work.