4 Dictionaries Management

Dictionaries are loaded and managed using the Dictionary Management menu in Argus Console to ensure adverse event terms, drug coding, and device problems are coded correctly.

You can load new dictionaries, overwrite existing dictionaries, recode a MedDRA dictionary, or load a dataset for smart event encoding.

Oracle Argus Safety supports the following dictionaries:

• MedDRA
• MedDRA J
• WHODrug Global
• WHODrug Chinese
• WHODrug Link Korea
• J Drug
• IMDRF
• JFMDA

The Dictionary Loader page is asynchronous, once the loading is initiated, you can move to other windows while the system continues loading dictionary in the background. You can download the logs from the Dictionary Management screen.

For more information, see:

• Dictionary Loader field descriptions
  The Dictionary Loader option is used to load new dictionary files, as well as to overwrite them.
• MedDRA dictionaries
  MedDRA and MedDRA J dictionaries can be loaded, overwritten and recoded using the Dictionary Management menu in Argus Console.
• WHODrug dictionaries
  WHODrug (Global), WHODrug (Chinese), and WHODrug (Link Korea) dictionaries can be loaded and overwritten using the Dictionary Management menu from Argus Console.
• J Drug dictionaries
  J Drug dictionaries can be loaded and overwritten using the Dictionary Management menu from Argus Console.
• IMDRF dictionaries
  IMDRF dictionaries can be loaded and overwritten using the Dictionary Management menu in Argus Console.
• JFMDA dictionaries
  JFMDA dictionaries can be loaded and overwritten using the Dictionary Management menu in Argus Console.
• EDQM Term List Loader utility
  The EDQM Term List Loader utility can be used to load the EDQM Standard Terms database in Argus, to maintain a local repository for the EDQM Standard Terms database, and to synchronize the Argus code list for Routes of Administration and Dose Forms.
• Frequently asked questions