Adverse drug event and medication extraction in electronic health records via a cascading architecture with different sequence labeling models and word embeddings.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: An adverse drug event (ADE) refers to an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug including harm caused by drugs or from the usage of drugs. Extracting ADEs from clinical records can help physicians associate adverse events to targeted drugs.

Authors

  • Hong-Jie Dai
    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taitung University, Taiwan. Electronic address: hjdai@nttu.edu.tw.
  • Chu-Hsien Su
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.
  • Chi-Shin Wu
    Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.