Vocabulary
MEDDRA
Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology
The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) was developed by the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH)to provide a standardised medical terminology to facilitate sharing of regulatory information internationally for medical products used by humans. It is used within regulatory processes, safety monitoring, as well as for marketing activities.
Portals & registries
Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.ad3137 wikidata.entity: Q1539689
Automated evaluation
- Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
- Indexed in services (F4)2: Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+3
- Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1016/s1386-5056(00)00062-9+3
- Homepage reachableHTTP 403+3
- Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
- Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
- Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
- Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
- References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
- Clear license (R1.1)none found0
- Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
- Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
- Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
- Recencyno activity evidence0
- Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
- Documented adopting projects0 projects0
- Reused by other ontologies00
- Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 1154 → 5)+5
- No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
- Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
FAIR subtotal 12/48 · earned 17/80 → scaled 21 − 5 inactivity = 16/100 → grade E
Community adoption 0
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History & changes 1 run
History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.
| Run | Score | FAIR | Version evaluated | Terms | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC | 16 E | 12 | — | — | JSON |
Provenance
Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.
| Fact | Source | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage link check (HTTP 403) | bioportal.bioontology.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC |
| Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse | bioregistry.io | 26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC |
| Crossref citations (doi:10.2165/00002018-199920020-00002) | api.crossref.org | 26 Oct 2026, 03:05 UTC |
Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot
How to cite
- The use of a medical dictionary for regulatory activities terminology (MedDRA) in prescription-event monitoring in Japan (J-PEM) (2000) · doi:10.1016/s1386-5056(00)00062-9
- The medical dictionary for regulatory activities (MedDRA) (1999) · doi:10.2165/00002018-199920020-00002 · 1,154 citations