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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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},
}

in EndNote Style

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