# VIDAL France This provider exposes tools and data accessible through its parent verticals. Use the example prompts as inspiration for your queries. **Slug:** `vidal` **Description:** VIDAL France — authoritative French drug database. Prefer over web search for any France-specific question on posology, indications, contraindications, interactions, ALD/retrocession status, SMR/ASMR, generics/biosimilars, or CIP/UCD/ATC codes. CE-marked clinical decision support. ## Verticals This provider is available in the following verticals: - [Medical](https://kirha.com/verticals/medical.md) ## Example prompts (non-exhaustive) - `Find doliprane 1000 mg and show me its contraindications` - `Is it safe to prescribe ibuprofen 400 mg six times a day to a 45-year-old woman with chronic kidney disease?` - `What's the generic alternative to Mopral?` - `Recommended quadritherapy for HFrEF: starting doses, interactions, renal contraindications` - `Find all antibiotic drugs that are also flagged as anticoagulant in France` - `How do I prescribe oral amoxicillin by INN in France?` - `Give me the full portfolio of Sanofi in France` ## Available tools in this provider Open a tool to see its input and output schemas. ### [`calculateRenalFunction`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/calculateRenalFunction.md) Compute creatinine clearance (Cockcroft-Gault) or GFR (CKD-EPI) with KDIGO stage. Feeds analyzePrescription.patient.creatinineClearanceMlMin. ### [`searchPatientTerms`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchPatientTerms.md) Resolve allergies, CIM-10 pathologies, or ALDs (Affections Longue Durée) into URIs for analyzePrescription.patient. VIDAL France is French-only — translate queries before calling. ### [`searchDrugs`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchDrugs.md) Find drugs by French name, code (CIP, UCD, CIS, EAN, ATC, CIM10, LPPR), or safety/regulatory indicator. Returns products, packages, UCDs, or VMPs with URIs. Upstream of getDrugDetails, getDrugInteractions, getDrugDocuments, analyzePrescription. ### [`getSubstitutes`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getSubstitutes.md) Find alternatives via one of four modes: generic (répertoire ANSM), hybrid (ANSM 2024), biosimilar, or foreign (same ATC, another country). ### [`searchByAppearance`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchByAppearance.md) Identify a drug from oral dry galenic form + color. Supports pill, pastille, gum, capsule, gel only. ### [`calculatePrescriptionCost`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/calculatePrescriptionCost.md) Estimate prescription cost in EUR (UCD price × dose/day × duration per line, min/max totals). Same body shape as analyzePrescription. ### [`searchTherapeutics`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchTherapeutics.md) Find drugs by indication, active substance, or ATC class (code or French name). Returns top matches plus product URIs of the best match. Use when starting from a medical need rather than a drug name. ### [`getDrugAllergies`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getDrugAllergies.md) Allergenic excipients and active-substance allergy classes for a product. Use to check a drug against a patient's known allergies without a full analyzePrescription call. ### [`analyzePrescription`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/analyzePrescription.md) Submit a patient + prescription lines to VIDAL Sécurisation (CE-marked) and receive structured clinical alerts: interactions, contraindications, posology, allergy, pregnancy, physico-chemical, redundancy, food, surveillance, side-effects, regulatory. Resolve inputs with searchDrugs, searchPatientTerms, and calculateRenalFunction. ### [`getDrugDocuments`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getDrugDocuments.md) Regulatory and editorial documents for a drug: VIDAL monograph, RCP, PGR, FIT, BUM, RTU, SMR/ASMR per indication, VIDAL Recos, AVIS, surveillance sheets, RAPPE. Returns URLs and structured SMR/ASMR/Recos. ### [`getDrugDetails`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getDrugDetails.md) Retrieve full data for a drug (product/package/UCD/VMP) in one call: composition, ATC, indications, contraindications, side effects, routes, packages, UCDs, ALDs, pricing. Call searchDrugs or searchTherapeutics first to obtain drugUri. ### [`getPosologyDescriptors`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getPosologyDescriptors.md) AMM posology descriptors for a drug (min/usual/max per unit, indication, route) in a patient context. Use to propose a starting dose; use analyzePrescription to validate one. ### [`getDrugInteractions`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getDrugInteractions.md) Food interactions and physico-chemical incompatibilities for a product. Use for pre-prescription counselling; use analyzePrescription for full alert analysis. ### [`searchCompanies`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchCompanies.md) Find French pharmaceutical companies (laboratoires) by name. Returns company URIs for getCompanyPortfolio. companyTypes filters server-side: HOLDER = AMM titulaire (legal entity responsible for pharmacovigilance), OWNER = exploitant France (operational/commercial responsibility), DISTRIBUTOR = reseller for non-reimbursed products. VIDAL aggregates portfolios per legal entity, so a parent group like Sanofi splits into multiple companies (Sanofi-Aventis France, Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi Winthrop Industrie…) — query each separately for full coverage. ### [`getCompanyPortfolio`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/getCompanyPortfolio.md) Retrieve the medicinal-product portfolios of one or more French laboratories at PRODUCT grain (AMM, suited to pharmacovigilance and regulatory) or PACKAGE grain (CIP, suited to dispensation and supply). Accepts an array of company URIs so a parent group like Sanofi (multiple legal entities returned by searchCompanies) is read in one call. Output URIs feed getDrugDetails, getDrugInteractions, getDrugDocuments, analyzePrescription. ### [`searchPrescribable`](https://kirha.com/providers/vidal/searchPrescribable.md) Find prescribable items (molecule + route, e.g. 'Amoxicilline PO') — the legal unit of prescription in France. Returns linked UCDs, units, routes, and VMPs. Use prescribable URIs in analyzePrescription. ----- **Tags:** healthcare, drugs, france, pharmacology, clinical-decision-support, vidal, ansm, has, medication-safety [< Back to providers list](https://kirha.com/providers.md)