Comments on: Branded and Generic medication compared https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Leonisha Barley https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1142 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:13:37 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1142 Hi Tony
Glad you’re finding my posts useful, and thanks for the link.

]]> By: Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1141 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:03:33 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1141 Re: the manufacturers, some company names seem to appear in elements of TRUD > NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices > NHSBSA dm+d .

]]> By: Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1140 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:46:42 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1140 Hi Leonisha

Thanks for clarifying that… I never put the time into the prescribing data to be able to look at it in anyway sensibly, but your posts are giving me plenty of cribs for next time I do have a play:-)

And your last comment suggests a handy little function around the BNF: for a given formulation, get a list of branded/unbranded alternatives.

Thanks again:-)

]]> By: Leonisha Barley https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1139 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:05:44 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1139 Hi Tony,
Thanks for the comment.
In my first blog post I explained that each medication had a unique BNF Code and if the product is branded but had a generic alternative the 14th and 15th digit of it’s BNF code match that of it’s generic equivalent.
Therefore I filtered down the products to display the branded products that had a generic equivalent available. Then I did my own research on google for the generic version of the branded product.
No sorry, I haven’t been able to find a list that matches branded drugs to manufacturer/pharmaceutical company.

]]> By: Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1138 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:29:27 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1138 Hi Leonisha –

Interesting post. Did you find a list of branded/generic equivalences, or were the mappings you used based on desk research of your own?

Something I keep wondering about is the distribution of manufacturer products. I don’t suppose you’ve found an open list that matches branded drugs to manufacturer/pharmaceutical company, have you?

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