Can Natural Language Processing Improve the Efficiency of Vaccine Adverse Event Report Review?
Journal:
Methods of information in medicine
Published Date:
Jan 1, 2016
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Individual case review of spontaneous adverse event (AE) reports remains a cornerstone of medical product safety surveillance for industry and regulators. Previously we developed the Vaccine Adverse Event Text Miner (VaeTM) to offer automated information extraction and potentially accelerate the evaluation of large volumes of unstructured data and facilitate signal detection.