WHO Drug Browser based search

  1. To open the WHO Drug Coding dialog box, click Encode adjacent to the product name.
  2. In the Drug Coding dialog box, the dictionary is loaded based on the configuration of the Case Form Configuration common profile switch as mentioned here.
    From the Case Form Configuration screen where the dictionaries are selected for encoding, select either the WHO Drug B3 format or the WHO Drug C3 format for Drugs. If the Who Drug C3 format is selected, the the Drugs(Chinese) option can be set to WHO Drug C3 format in the Chinese dictionary.

    When you select WHO Drug from the Drug Coding window, the Chinese Trade Name and Chinese Generic Name are auto-populated in the Product Name and Generic Name fields of the Product tab in the multi-language window for Chinese language.

    These fields are auto-populated only when the Chinese WHO Drug dictionary is loaded, and set in the WHO Drugs (Chinese) common profile switch.

  3. Enter the search criteria, and click Search.

    You can search for a product based on:

    • Trade Name
    • Total Rows (#) - Total number of records are displayed as per the search result next to Trade Name
    • Formulation/Strength (sequence 3 and sequence 4) of the product
    • Country - The Sales Country Code of the Product as defined in the WHO Dictionary
    • Generic
    • Ingredient - The strength of individual ingredients is displayed in the Drug Details section.
    • Drug Code / Medicinal Product ID
    • MAH - Marketing Authorization Holder of the product

      The following criteria are not available for display or searching in the WHO Drug B Format:

      • Formulation
      • Country
      • Strength
      • MAH
      • Generic
      • Medicinal Product ID
      • Product Type
  4. To copy the selected drug to the Product tab, click Select.
  5. To close the selection dialog box without making any updates to the Product tab, click Cancel.
  6. To perform a full search from the WHO Drug browser, select Full Search.
    • By default, an exact search is performed (e.g., CUREALL)
    • You can use the percent (%) sign to perform wildcard searches (e.g., CUREALL%)
    • If you click Full Search, the full search is performed (e.g., %CUREALL%)
  7. To clear the search criteria you entered, click Clear.
  8. You can sort the results on all the fields.

Parent topic: Search for products