Title |
Filtering big data from social media – Building an early warning system for adverse drug reactions
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Published in |
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, February 2015
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DOI | 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.01.011 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Ming Yang, Melody Kiang, Wei Shang |
Abstract |
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 the popularity of social media, Web forums and discussion boards become important sources of data for consumers to share their drug use experience, as a result may provide useful information on drugs and their adverse reactions. In this study, we propose an automated ADR related posts filtering mechanism using text classification methods. In real-life settings, ADR related messages are highly distributed in social media, while non-ADR related messages are unspecific and topically diverse. It is expensive to manually label a large amount of ADR related messages (positive examples) and non-ADR related messages (negative examples) to train classification systems. To mitigate this challenge, we examine the use of a partially supervised learning classification method to automate the process. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 7 | 44% |
France | 2 | 13% |
Italy | 2 | 13% |
India | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 4 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 14 | 88% |
Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | <1% |
Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
Brazil | 1 | <1% |
Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 331 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 66 | 20% |
Student > Master | 63 | 19% |
Researcher | 34 | 10% |
Student > Bachelor | 28 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 6% |
Other | 70 | 21% |
Unknown | 56 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Computer Science | 81 | 24% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 45 | 13% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 24 | 7% |
Engineering | 23 | 7% |
Social Sciences | 14 | 4% |
Other | 74 | 22% |
Unknown | 77 | 23% |