Identification of Adverse Drug Events from Free Text Electronic Patient Records and Information in a Large Mental Health Case Register.

Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are a rich source of information, with huge potential for secondary research use. The aim of this study was to develop an application to identify instances of Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) from free text psychiatric EHRs.We used the GATE Natural Language Processing...

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Main Authors: Ehtesham Iqbal, Robbie Mallah, Richard George Jackson, Michael Ball, Zina M Ibrahim, Matthew Broadbent, Olubanke Dzahini, Robert Stewart, Caroline Johnston, Richard J B Dobson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4537312?pdf=render