SNOMED-CT Codelist for First- and Second-Generation Antipsychotics

82.3 KB SNOMED-CT codelist created by Jamie Scuffell to identify prescriptions of oral and depot injectable antipsychotic medications. The dataset was last updated on May 27, 2026, and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify antipsychotic medication usage in electronic health records based on SNOMED-CT codes.
• Filter patient cohorts for pharmacoepidemiology studies based on antipsychotic prescriptions.
• Standardize medication data extraction for health informatics projects based on the described codelist.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (82.3 KB), ensuring easy download and integration.
• Uses the standardized SNOMED-CT terminology for reliable code mapping.
• Explicitly covers both oral and depot injectable formulations of antipsychotics.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 11:31:08; freshness should be verified.