Improving the interoperability of drugs terminologies: Infusing local standardization with an international perspective.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to describe how OCRx (Canadian Drug Ontology) has been built to address the dual need for local drug information integration in Canada and alignment with international standards requirements.

Methods: This paper delves into (i) the implementation efforts to meet the Identification of Medicinal Product (IDMP) requirements in OCRx, alongside the ontology update strategy, (ii) the structure of the ontology itself, (iii) the alignment approach with several reference Knowledge Organization Systems, including SNOMED CT, RxNorm, and the list of "Code Identifiant de Spécialité" (CIS-Code), and (iv) the look-up services developed to facilitate its access and utilization.

Results: Each OCRx release contains two distinct versions: the full and the up-to-date version.

[Work and education in health in Brazil: trends in scientific output between 1990-2010].

The scope of this article is to analyze the characteristics of scientific literature on work and education in health in Brazil from 1990 to 2010. A synthetic study was conducted from abstracts published in Brazilian journal articles selected from the SCIELO and LILACS databases. Five hundred and thirty-two articles were selected, categorized according to their origin, year of publication, theme, and type of study.