Text mining for adverse drug events: the promise, challenges, and state of the art

R Harpaz, A Callahan, S Tamang, Y Low, D Odgers… - Drug safety, 2014 - Springer
Text mining is the computational process of extracting meaningful information from large
amounts of unstructured text. It is emerging as a tool to leverage underutilized data sources …

A systematic review of natural language processing for classification tasks in the field of incident reporting and adverse event analysis

IJB Young, S Luz, N Lone - International journal of medical informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
Context Adverse events in healthcare are often collated in incident reports which contain
unstructured free text. Learning from these events may improve patient safety. Natural …

Monitoring the public opinion about the vaccination topic from tweets analysis

E D'Andrea, P Ducange, A Bechini, A Renda… - Expert Systems with …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents an intelligent system to automatically infer trends in the public opinion
regarding the stance towards the vaccination topic: it enables the detection of significant …

Analysis of free text in electronic health records for identification of cancer patient trajectories

K Jensen, C Soguero-Ruiz, K Oyvind Mikalsen… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
With an aging patient population and increasing complexity in patient disease trajectories,
physicians are often met with complex patient histories from which clinical decisions must be …

[HTML][HTML] Filtering big data from social media–Building an early warning system for adverse drug reactions

M Yang, M Kiang, W Shang - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are believed to be a leading cause of
death in the world. Pharmacovigilance systems are aimed at early detection of ADRs. With …

Detecting discussion communities on vaccination in twitter

G Bello-Orgaz, J Hernandez-Castro… - Future Generation …, 2017 - Elsevier
Vaccines have contributed to dramatically decrease mortality from infectious diseases in the
20th century. However, several social discussion groups related to vaccines have emerged …

Prediction of emergency department hospital admission based on natural language processing and neural networks

X Zhang, J Kim, RE Patzer, SR Pitts… - … of information in …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Objective: To describe and compare logistic regression and neural network modeling
strategies to predict hospital admission or transfer following initial presentation to …

Validation of prediction models for critical care outcomes using natural language processing of electronic health record data

BJ Marafino, M Park, JM Davies, R Thombley… - JAMA network …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Accurate prediction of outcomes among patients in intensive care units (ICUs) is
important for clinical research and monitoring care quality. Most existing prediction models …

“Artificial intelligence” for pharmacovigilance: ready for prime time?

R Ball, G Dal Pan - Drug Safety, 2022 - Springer
There is great interest in the application of 'artificial intelligence'(AI) to pharmacovigilance
(PV). Although US FDA is broadly exploring the use of AI for PV, we focus on the application …

Natural language processing and its implications for the future of medication safety: a narrative review of recent advances and challenges

A Wong, JM Plasek, SP Montecalvo… - … : The Journal of Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The safety of medication use has been a priority in the United States since the late 1930s.
Recently, it has gained prominence due to the increasing amount of data suggesting that a …