Classification of medicines

Answer 1

Medical classification, or medical coding, is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers. The diagnoses and procedures are usually taken from a variety of sources within the medical record, such as the transcription of the doctor's notes, laboratory results, radiologic results, and other sources. Diagnosis codes are used to track diseases, whether they are chronic diseases such as Diabetes mellitus and Heart disease, to contagious diseases such as norovirus, the flu, and athlete's foot. These diagnosis and procedure codes are used by government health programs, private health insurance companies, workers' compensation carriers and others.

Answer 2

This depends on what the medication is for. A few common classifications are Antibiotics (inhibits growth of germs), Antiseptics (stop germ spread around cuts and burns), Antipyretics (reducing fever), and Analgestics (painkillers)

Answer 3

What is your question about classification? The first thing that comes to my mind is possibly pain medications/opiates. If this is correct see a list of opiates at www.opiatedetox.biz .