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bc_get_drug_statistics

Retrieve FDA Drugs@FDA database statistics, including top pharmaceutical sponsors, common dosage forms, routes of administration, and marketing status distribution, for comprehensive drug data insights.

Instructions

Get general statistics about the FDA Drugs@FDA database.

This function provides an overview of the database including:

  • Top pharmaceutical sponsors by number of approved drugs

  • Most common dosage forms

  • Most common routes of administration

  • Distribution of marketing statuses

Returns: dict: Statistical overview of the FDA drugs database.

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Implementation Reference

  • The core handler function for the 'get_drug_statistics' tool (likely 'bc_get_drug_statistics' under BC namespace), decorated with @core_mcp.tool(). It aggregates statistics from multiple FDA API calls: top 10 sponsors, top 15 dosage forms and routes, top 10 marketing statuses.
    @core_mcp.tool() def get_drug_statistics() -> dict: """Get general statistics about the FDA Drugs@FDA database. Includes top sponsors, dosage forms, routes, marketing status. Returns: dict: Top sponsors, dosage_forms, administration_routes, marketing_statuses with counts or error message. """ statistics = {} try: # Get top sponsors base_url = "https://api.fda.gov/drug/drugsfda.json" sponsors_response = requests.get(base_url, params={"count": "sponsor_name", "limit": 10}) # type: ignore sponsors_response.raise_for_status() statistics["top_sponsors"] = sponsors_response.json() # Get dosage forms dosage_response = requests.get(base_url, params={"count": "products.dosage_form", "limit": 15}) # type: ignore dosage_response.raise_for_status() statistics["dosage_forms"] = dosage_response.json() # Get routes of administration routes_response = requests.get(base_url, params={"count": "products.route", "limit": 15}) # type: ignore routes_response.raise_for_status() statistics["administration_routes"] = routes_response.json() # Get marketing statuses status_response = requests.get(base_url, params={"count": "products.marketing_status", "limit": 10}) # type: ignore status_response.raise_for_status() statistics["marketing_statuses"] = status_response.json() return statistics except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: return {"error": f"Failed to fetch FDA drug statistics: {e!s}"}
  • Definition of core_mcp = FastMCP("BC", ...), the MCP server instance named 'BC' used by @core_mcp.tool() decorators to register all tools including get_drug_statistics (potentially prefixed as bc_get_drug_statistics).
    from fastmcp import FastMCP core_mcp = FastMCP( # type: ignore "BC", instructions="Provides access to biomedical knowledge bases.", )
  • Import of the get_drug_statistics handler function into the openfda module, making it available for use and registration via the decorator.
    from ._count_drugs import count_drugs_by_field, get_drug_statistics

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