Datatypes

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System

ID atccode

The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties. Its purpose is an aid to monitor drug use and for research to improve quality medication use. It does not imply drug recommendation or efficacy.

Categories

Medical/pharma identifiers

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Bioregistry

atc

Wikidata

P267

Quality

85/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example

Metacrafter rules

9 rules (5 by field name, 4 by value)

• deatcfield field, de/de_med.yaml
• deatcvalue data, de/de_med.yaml
• enatcfield field, en/en_med.yaml
• enatcvalue data, en/en_med.yaml
• esatcfield field, es/es_med.yaml
• esatcvalue data, es/es_med.yaml
• fratcfield field, fr/fr_med.yaml
• fratcvalue data, fr/fr_med.yaml
• and 1 more (see the JSON)

Supported by tools

metacrafter, metacrafterpro

Regular expression

[A-V]([0-9][0-9]([A-Z]([A-Z]([0-9][0-9])?)?)?)[0-9]

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Translations

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_Therapeutic_Chemical_Classification_System
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P267

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/atccode
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/medical/atccode.yaml on GitHub