Pharmacovigilance using clinical notes.

P. LePendu; S. Iyer V; A. Bauer-Mehren; R. Harpaz; J. M. Mortensen; T. Podchiyska; T. A. Ferris; N. H. Shah

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Pharmacovigilance using clinical notes.

May 1, 2013

LePendu P, Iyer S, Bauer-Mehren A, et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2013;93(6):547-55.

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This study reports on the use of natural language processing to identify adverse drug events and discusses the potential for this technique to be used for detecting errors through real-time screening of electronic medical records.

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