Adverse Drug Events Detection in Clinical Notes by Jointly Modeling Entities and Relations Using Neural Networks.

Journal: Drug safety
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE: Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur in approximately 2-5% of hospitalized patients, often resulting in poor outcomes or even death. Extraction of ADEs from clinical narratives can accelerate and automate pharmacovigilance. Using state-of-the-art deep-learning neural networks to jointly model concept and relation extraction, we achieved the highest integrated task score in the 2018 Medication and Adverse Drug Event (MADE) 1.0 challenge.

Authors

  • Bharath Dandala
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
  • Venkata Joopudi
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA.
  • Murthy Devarakonda
    IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA. Electronic address: mvd@acm.org.