Prescription Cost Analysis 1998-2016 - drugs matched to BNF via fuzzy lookup

Some drug names found in the PCA data do not exactly match any drug names in the current British National Formulary (BNF), e.g. formulation variants no longer available. A similar BNF presentation name could sometimes be found by using the “fuzzy” lookup add-on for Excel. These were validated manually by a pharmacist.

本PCA数据集中存在部分药物名称，无法与当前英国国家处方集（British National Formulary，BNF）中的任一药物名称完全匹配，例如已停止供应的剂型变体。有时可借助Excel的「模糊匹配」加载项，匹配到与BNF药品剂型名称近似的条目。上述近似匹配结果均由药剂师人工审核验证。