Design and validation of an automated method to detect known adverse drug reactions in MEDLINE: a contribution from the EU-ADR project.
The aim of this research was to automate the search of publications concerning adverse drug reactions (ADR) by defining the queries used to search MEDLINE and by determining the required threshold for the number of extracted publications to confirm the drug/event association in the literature.
Author(s): Avillach, Paul, Dufour, Jean-Charles, Diallo, Gayo, Salvo, Francesco, Joubert, Michel, Thiessard, Frantz, Mougin, Fleur, Trifirò, Gianluca, Fourrier-Réglat, Annie, Pariente, Antoine, Fieschi, Marius
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001083