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Using information mining of the medical literature to improve drug safety.

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العنوان: Using information mining of the medical literature to improve drug safety.
المؤلفون: Shetty KD, Dalal SR, Shetty, Kanaka D, Dalal, Siddhartha R
المصدر: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; Sep2011, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p668-674, 7p
مستخلص: Objective: Prescription drugs can be associated with adverse effects (AEs) that are unrecognized despite evidence in the medical literature, as shown by rofecoxib's late recall in 2004. We assessed whether applying information mining to PubMed could reveal major drug-AE associations if articles testing whether drugs cause AEs are over-represented in the literature.Design: MEDLINE citations published between 1949 and September 2009 were retrieved if they mentioned one of 38 drugs and one of 55 AEs. A statistical document classifier (using MeSH index terms) was constructed to remove irrelevant articles unlikely to test whether a drug caused an AE. The remaining relevant articles were analyzed using a disproportionality analysis that identified drug-AE associations (signals of disproportionate reporting) using step-up procedures developed to control the familywise type I error rate.Measurements: Sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) for empirical drug-AE associations as judged against drug-AE associations subject to FDA warnings.Results: In testing, the statistical document classifier identified relevant articles with 81% sensitivity and 87% PPV. Using data filtered by the statistical document classifier, base-case models showed 64.9% sensitivity and 42.4% PPV for detecting FDA warnings. Base-case models discovered 54% of all detected FDA warnings using literature published before warnings. For example, the rofecoxib-heart disease association was evident using literature published before 2002. Analyses incorporating literature mentioning AEs common to the drug class of interest yielded 71.4% sensitivity and 40.7% PPV.Conclusions: Results from large-scale literature retrieval and analysis (literature mining) compared favorably with and could complement current drug safety methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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قاعدة البيانات: Complementary Index
الوصف
تدمد:10675027
DOI:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000096