OBJECTIVE: Because adverse drug events (ADEs) are a serious health problem and a leading cause of death, it is of vital importance to identify them correctly and in a timely manner. With the development of Web 2.0, social media has become a large dat...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Nov 25, 2015
BACKGROUND: The digitization of healthcare data, resulting from the increasingly widespread adoption of electronic health records, has greatly facilitated its analysis by computational methods and thereby enabled large-scale secondary use thereof. Th...
Pharmacovigilance (PV) is defined by the World Health Organization as the science and activities related to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem. An essential aspect in PV is to ...
The advances achieved in Natural Language Processing make it possible to automatically mine information from electronically created documents. Many Natural Language Processing methods that extract information from texts make use of annotated corpora,...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jun 15, 2015
BACKGROUND: Adverse Drug reactions (ADR) cause a high number of deaths among hospitalized patients in developed countries. Major drug agencies have devoted a great interest in the early detection of ADRs due to their high incidence and increasing hea...
Although potential drug-drug interactions (PDDIs) are a significant source of preventable drug-related harm, there is currently no single complete source of PDDI information. In the current study, all publically available sources of PDDI information ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 9, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Social media is becoming increasingly popular as a platform for sharing personal health-related information. This information can be utilized for public health monitoring tasks, particularly for pharmacovigilance, via the use of natural la...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Monitoring adverse drug events (ADEs) is critical for pharmacovigilance and patient safety. However, identifying ADEs remains challenging, as suspected or confirmed side effects are often documented solely in the unstructured text of electronic healt...
Current reviews in clinical and experimental pharmacology
Jan 1, 2025
Predictions are made by artificial intelligence, especially through machine learning, which uses algorithms and past knowledge. Notably, there has been an increase in interest in using artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, in the pharm...
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