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Social media for arthritis-related comparative effectiveness and safety research and the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, March 2017
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Title
Social media for arthritis-related comparative effectiveness and safety research and the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising
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Arthritis Research & Therapy, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13075-017-1251-y
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Jeffrey R. Curtis, Lang Chen, Phillip Higginbotham, W. Benjamin Nowell, Ronit Gal-Levy, James Willig, Monika Safford, Joseph Coe, Kaitlin O’Hara, Roee Sa’adon

Abstract

Social media may complement traditional data sources to answer comparative effectiveness/safety questions after medication licensure. The Treato platform was used to analyze all publicly available social media data including Facebook, blogs, and discussion boards for posts mentioning inflammatory arthritis (e.g. rheumatoid, psoriatic). Safety events were self-reported by patients and mapped to medical ontologies, resolving synonyms. Disease and symptom-related treatment indications were manually redacted. The units of analysis were unique terms in posts. Pre-specified conditions (e.g. herpes zoster (HZ)) were selected based upon safety signals from clinical trials and reported as pairwise odds ratios (ORs); drugs were compared with Fisher's exact test. Empirically identified events were analyzed using disproportionality analysis and reported as relative reporting ratios (RRRs). The accuracy of a natural language processing (NLP) classifier to identify cases of shingles associated with arthritis medications was assessed. As of October 2015, there were 785,656 arthritis-related posts. Posts were predominantly US posts (75%) from patient authors (87%) under 40 years of age (61%). For HZ posts (n = 1815), ORs were significantly increased with tofacitinib versus other rheumatoid arthritis therapies. ORs for mentions of perforated bowel (n = 13) were higher with tocilizumab versus other therapies. RRRs associated with tofacitinib were highest in conditions related to baldness and hair regrowth, infections and cancer. The NLP classifier had a positive predictive value of 91% to identify HZ. There was a threefold increase in posts following television direct-to-consumer advertisement (p = 0.04); posts expressing medication safety concerns were significantly more frequent than favorable posts. Social media is a challenging yet promising data source that may complement traditional approaches for comparative effectiveness research for new medications.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 117 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 15%
Researcher 12 10%
Other 11 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Other 26 22%
Unknown 31 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 7%
Psychology 6 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 5%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 45 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 03 January 2018.
All research outputs
#7,208,166
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#1,485
of 3,380 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,687
of 321,098 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#19
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,380 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% of its peers.
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