Pharmacotherapy

Preferred Label : Pharmacotherapy;

NCIt synonyms : Pharmacological Treatments; Pharmacological Treatment; Treatment With Medication;

NCIt related terms : Pharmaceutical Therapy; drug therapy; Pharmaceutical Therapy, NOS;

NCIt definition : Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: Treatment with any substance, other than food, that is used to prevent, diagnose, treat, or relieve symptoms of a disease or abnormal condition.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000651195;

Details

Origin ID

C15986;

UMLS CUI

C0013216;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Administration of drug or medicament (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Medical treatment [HPMULTI term]
- Medical treatment [UNESCO concept]
- Medication administration [LOINC component]
- W Chemotherapy [LOINC Challenge]
- medication / prescription / renewal / injection [ICPC-2 Process]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Chemotherapy [LOINC component]
- Drug therapy [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Drug therapy (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- drug therapy [MeSH concept]
- drug therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- drug therapy [MeSH Qualifier]
- drug therapy [MedlinePlus Group]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Administration of drug or medicament (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Medication administration [LOINC component]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Drug therapy [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Drug therapy (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- drug therapy [MedlinePlus Group]
- drug therapy [Disease (Nov.)]
- drug therapy [MeSH concept]
- drug therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- drug therapy [Disease (Nov.)]
concept_is_in_subset
- CPTAC Codelists Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Treatments Codelist [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GDC Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GDC Value Terminology [NCIt concept]
- NICHD Terminology [NCIt concept]

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