Postmarket drug surveillance without trial costs: discovery of adverse drug reactions through large-scale analysis of web search queries.
J Med Internet Res
; 15(6): e124, 2013 Jun 18.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Postmarket drug safety surveillance largely depends on spontaneous reports by patients and health care providers; hence, less common adverse drug reactions--especially those caused by long-term exposure, multidrug treatments, or those specific to special populations--often elude discovery.OBJECTIVE:
Here we propose a low cost, fully automated method for continuous monitoring of adverse drug reactions in single drugs and in combinations thereof, and demonstrate the discovery of heretofore-unknown ones.METHODS:
We used aggregated search data of large populations of Internet users to extract information related to drugs and adverse reactions to them, and correlated these data over time. We further extended our method to identify adverse reactions to combinations of drugs.RESULTS:
We validated our method by showing high correlations of our findings with known adverse drug reactions (ADRs). However, although acute early-onset drug reactions are more likely to be reported to regulatory agencies, we show that less acute later-onset ones are better captured in Web search queries.CONCLUSIONS:
Our method is advantageous in identifying previously unknown adverse drug reactions. These ADRs should be considered as candidates for further scrutiny by medical regulatory authorities, for example, through phase 4 trials.Palabras clave
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Vigilancia de Productos Comercializados
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Ensayos Clínicos como Asunto
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Internet
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Efectos Colaterales y Reacciones Adversas Relacionados con Medicamentos
Tipo de estudio:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Med Internet Res
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos