Mining for Adverse Drug Events on Twitter

Felipe Duval, Ernesto Caffarena, Oswaldo Cruz, Fabrício Silva

2014

Abstract

At the post-marketing phase when drugs are used by large populations and for long periods, unexpected adverse events may occur altering the risk-benefit relation of drugs, sometimes requiring a regulatory action. These events at the post-marketing phase require a significant increase in health care since they result in unnecessary damage, often fatal, to patients. Therefore, the early discovery of adverse events in the post-marketing phase is a primary goal of the health system, in particular for pharmacovigilance systems. The main purpose of this paper is to prove that Twitter can be used as a source to find new and already known adverse drug events. This proposal has a prominent social relevance, as it will help pharmacovigilance systems.

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Duval F., Caffarena E., Cruz O. and Silva F. (2014). Mining for Adverse Drug Events on Twitter . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-048-2, pages 354-359. DOI: 10.5220/0005135203540359


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@conference{kdir14,
author={Felipe Duval and Ernesto Caffarena and Oswaldo Cruz and Fabrício Silva},
title={Mining for Adverse Drug Events on Twitter},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={354-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005135203540359},
isbn={978-989-758-048-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Mining for Adverse Drug Events on Twitter
SN - 978-989-758-048-2
AU - Duval F.
AU - Caffarena E.
AU - Cruz O.
AU - Silva F.
PY - 2014
SP - 354
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0005135203540359