Find Information on Drug Sales by Class?
TOPIC: Dialog contains a wealth of sources for finding sales information on pharmaceutical products. These sources include business trade literature, company reports, country reports, analysts’ reports, and market research reports. Many of these sources contain tabular data.
In this example we will look at strategies for finding sales information regarding pharmaceutical sales by drug class. Business & Industry (File 9) provides excellent indexing to help you quickly access facts, figures and key events in trade magazines, newsletters, business press, regional newspapers and international business dailies that focus on specific therapeutic areas.
This example shows a simple query on a therapeutic term in the Title field (/TI) and the use of the Dialog RANK command to pinpoint appropriate Product Code numbers (PC=) to use in the search. Additional databases where a similar strategy works include Gale Group PROMT® (File 16), Gale Group Trade & Industry Database (File 148) and TableBase (File 93).
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 9
SELECT ANTIBIOTIC?/TI AND PY=2006:2008
Click S1 in the sidebar > Tasks > RANK > PN
VIEW 1/KWIC/1 and find the product code in the record
S PC=NNNNNN AND SALES/DE
TYPE S2/8/1-3
Click Links > Display > Type Full Record
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 9 to search Business & Industry.
2. SELECT a therapeutic term in the Title (/TI) field and limit the search to most current years using PY=.
The colon provides a range of years.
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3. Click S1 in the Set Links pane > Tasks > RANK. the Product Name (PN) field to find the Product Name and associated Product Code (PC=).
4. From the next screen check Product Name and click OK.
Use of product indexing can result in a more focused search. Results of RANK show the product names in order by frequency of occurrence. |
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4. Check the appropriate product name and click VIEW selecting KWIC from the Format box.
VIEW functions in the same way as the TYPE command. Formats are priced as with TYPE.
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Note the Product Code is alongside the product name.
7. Search the Product Code (PC=) and the Descriptor “sales” to find articles indexed to those terms.
Note: It is often a good idea to EXPAND the Product Code (e.g., EXPAND PC=283415) and select the appropriate “E” Reference numbers. Then combine with sales/de. |
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8. TYPE a few records in Format 8 to see title, descriptors and publication years.
Note: Some records have been omitted from this display.
9. Click Links next to the record(s) of choice > Display > Type Full Record. |
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Note: Part of this record is omitted from the display. |
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