Detecting adverse drug reactions in discharge summaries of electronic medical records using Readpeer.

Journal: International journal of medical informatics
PMID: 31160013

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Hospital discharge summaries offer a potentially rich resource to enhance pharmacovigilance efforts to evaluate drug safety in real-world clinical practice. However, it is infeasible for experts to read through all discharge summaries to find cases of drug-adverse event (AE) relations.

Authors

  • Yixuan Tang
    Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  • Jisong Yang
    Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  • Pei San Ang
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Sreemanee Raaj Dorajoo
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Belinda Foo
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Sally Soh
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Siew Har Tan
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Mun Yee Tham
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore.
  • Qing Ye
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430000, China.
  • Lynette Shek
    Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore.
  • Cynthia Sung
    Vigilance & Compliance Branch, Health Products Regulation Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore; Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
  • Anthony Tung
    Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: anthony@comp.nus.edu.sg.

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