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

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics, February 2015
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Title
Filtering big data from social media – Building an early warning system for adverse drug reactions
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, February 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.01.011
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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 %
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 %
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 %
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%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2016.
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#3,333,477
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Outputs from Journal of Biomedical Informatics
#194
of 2,247 outputs
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#47,157
of 369,651 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Biomedical Informatics
#4
of 32 outputs
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