Enhancing adverse drug event detection in electronic health records using molecular structure similarity: application to pancreatitis.

Adverse drug events (ADEs) detection and assessment is at the center of pharmacovigilance. Data mining of systems, such as FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) and more recently, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), can aid in the automatic detection and analysis of ADEs. Although different...

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Main Authors: Santiago Vilar, Rave Harpaz, Lourdes Santana, Eugenio Uriarte, Carol Friedman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3404072?pdf=render