November 13, 2007

This directory contains documentation, data files, and other resources
related to controlled terminology used by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).  NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) is
working actively with FDA to develop and support controlled
terminology in several areas, notably:
     SPL   Structured Product Labeling
     ICSR  Individual Case Safety Report
     CDRH  Center for Devices and Radiological Health
     UNII  Unique Ingredient Identifiers

Contents - Files:

FDA_NCIt_Subsets.txt   (all FDA subsets in NCI Thesaurus: tabbed text)
FDA_NCIt_Subsets.xls   (all FDA subsets in NCI Thesaurus: Excel)
FDA_NCIt_Subsets.zip   (all FDA subsets in NCI Thesaurus: zipped Excel)
NCITSubsets.doc        (how to extract term sets from NCI Thesaurus)
ReadMe.txt	       (this file)

Contents - Directories:

Archive                (dated/earlier file versions)
CDRH		       (CDRH subsets in NCI Thesaurus, new format)
ICSR		       (ICSR subsets in NCI Thesaurus)
ndfrt                  (VA NDF-RT SPL subsets)
ProblemList            (SPL Kaiser/VA problem list subset)
ReportWriter           (application to create subset reports)
SPL		       (SPL subsets in NCI Thesaurus)
UNII		       (UNII subset in NCI Thesaurus)

Background:

Additional documentation, data files, and related information are 
available on this Web page:
     http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/terminologyresources/FDA