WHO-ART - WHO Adverse Reaction Terminology

This is a highly refined terminology for coding clinical information in relation to drug therapy, used throughout the WHO Program by member countries and around the world by pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations

The WHO-ART has been developed over more than thirty years to serve as a basis for rational coding of adverse reaction terms.

Because new drugs and new indications produce new adverse reaction terms, the structure of the terminology is flexible enough to allow new entries to be incorporated while maintaining its structure and without losing previous relationships.

WHO-ART covers most medical terms needed in adverse reaction reporting, but is still small enough to make it possible to print it out as a list which makes it easily usable for smaller companies and national centres.

WHO-ART guide (pdf)

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