Oral Solid Medication Metadata from FDA Drug Labeling

Pillbox contains metadata for oral solid dosage form medications, derived from FDA drug labeling. The dataset includes physical characteristics, active and inactive ingredients, National Drug Codes, and information about marketing firms. It was retired on January 28, 2021, and its final image library remains available for research.

Use Cases

• Extract physical characteristics like shape and color to identify unknown oral solid medications.
• Link National Drug Codes (NDCs) to active and inactive ingredient lists for drug composition analysis.
• Analyze firm marketing information associated with specific drug products.
• Cross-reference metadata with RxNorm concepts for standardized drug terminology mapping.

Strengths

• Data is derived from authoritative FDA drug labeling.
• Includes multiple structured formats: XML, CSV, RDF, and JSON.
• Managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Limitations

• Dataset is retired and was last updated in August 2020, so information is not current.
• Specific scale metrics like row count and column count are unknown.
• Data availability is static with no future updates planned.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Library of Medicine.

Collection Method

Derived from FDA drug labeling, with selected information from RxNorm.

Time Range

Coverage up to retirement in August 2020.

Freshness

Retired; final data snapshot from August 2020.

Geography

United States (FDA-regulated products).