nodes of the ATC hierarchy

This contains nodes of the ATC hierarchy at all 5 levels (e.g. A, A01, A01A ...), and associated descriptive text (eg. for A: ALIMENTARY TRACT AND METABOLISM), used here for visualisation.

Usage

ATCdata

Format

A named character vector for each node, where each entry is an ATC code and the name is a textual description

Source

The ATC data can be perused at <https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/>.

This data is from the repository at <https://github.com/fabkury/atcd> and this release is at <https://github.com/fabkury/atcd/releases/tag/april2026>.

The first two columns from the .csv file were selected to produce the named character vector