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Code ATC
Diagram
Overview
The ATC code from WHO does not aim at describing products, but classes of products with similar characteristics. As an example, ATC code J07BX03 represents any vaccine against Covid19.
Complete
Computed using nuva-utils with the alignments built in NUVA.
Precise
Computed using nuva-utils with the alignments built in NUVA.
Informative
The structure of the ATC code is meaningful: J07 corresponds to vaccines, the fourth letter (A, B, C or X) to the type of infectious agent, and the fifth one to a target disease (with some tweaks to try to accommodate for the multivalent vaccines). It is a coarse interpretability level evaluated at 50%
Tolerant
The ATC labels are generic, written only in English, and will never match the written form in the paper records. The paper inclusiveness index is 0%.
Inclusive
Because of the notoriety of the ATC codification, almost every code system included a correspondence between its codes and the corresponding ATC code. We can assess a digital inclusiveness index of 100%.
Mappable
ATC code is the coarsest level of codification of vaccines, it cannot be converted back unambiguously to any other code system. The mappability index is 0%.