DailyMed
{{Short description|Official provider of FDA label information and medication content resources}}
DailyMed is a website operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels (also called a "package insert") to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and updated daily by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA in turn collects this information from the pharmaceutical industry.
The documents published use the HL7 version 3 Structured Product Labeling (SPL) standard,{{cite web|url=https://open.fda.gov/data/spl/|title=About SPL|publisher=FDA|lang=en|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2017-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710045801/https://open.fda.gov/data/spl/|url-status=live}} which is an XML format that combines the human readable text of the product label with structured data elements that describe the composition, form, packaging, and other properties of the drug products in detail according to the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM).
{{As of|2021|08|21|df=US}}, it contained information about 140,232 drug listings.{{cite web |url=http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm |title=About DailyMed |access-date=2010-03-01 |work=DailyMed |archive-date=2008-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112024512/http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm |url-status=live }}
It includes an RSS feed for updated drug information.{{cite web |url=https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/rss-updates.cfm |title=DailyMed RSS Updates |access-date=2007-06-24 |work=DailyMed |archive-date=2020-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509231924/https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/rss-updates.cfm |url-status=live }}
History
In 2006 the FDA revised the drug label and also created DailyMed to keep prescription information up to date."Requirements on Content and Format of Labeling for Human Prescription Drug and Biological Products", {{Federal Register|71|3921}}, 24 January 2006{{cite journal |date= 8 March 2006 |title= Drug Package Inserts Get Mixed Reception |first= Mike |last= Mitka |journal= JAMA |volume= 295 |issue= 10 |pages=1110–1111 |doi=10.1001/jama.295.10.1110|pmid= 16522825 }}{{cite journal |title=Highlights of Drug Package Inserts and the Website DailyMed: The Need for Further Improvement in Package Inserts to Help Busy Prescribers| last= de Leon |first= Jose| journal= Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology |date= June 2011 |volume= 31 |issue= 3 |pages= 263–265 |doi= 10.1097/JCP.0b013e318218f3e4| pmid= 21508855 }}
See also
- Consumer Product Information Database, ingredients of household products
- Environmental Working Group, which maintains a database of cosmetics ingredients
References
External links
- {{official website|http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/}}
- [https://labels.fda.gov/ labels.fda.gov] Drug labels at FDA website
Category:American medical websites
Category:United States National Library of Medicine
Category:Medical search engines
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