Identifying potential adverse effects using the web: A new approach to medical hypothesis generation

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 989-996

  Benton, Adrian ^a   Ungar, Lyle ^c   Hill, Shawndra ^b   Hennessy, Sean ^a   Mao, Jun ^a   Chung, Annie ^a   Leonard, Charles E ^a   Holmes, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Drug adverse effect; Information extraction; Medical message board

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BREAST CANCER; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPOTHESIS GENERATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEDICAL PROVIDERS; MESSAGE BOARDS; ONLINE RESOURCES; PARTICULAR CONDITION; TAMOXIFEN;

DATA MINING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ANASTROZOLE; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE; TAMOXIFEN; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHAPPED LIPS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DEPRESSION; DRUG LABELING; DRY EYE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; LUPUS VULGARIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENOPAUSE; MOOD SWINGS; NIGHT SWEAT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL MEDICINE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL DRYNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; PRODUCT LABELING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84855919063     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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