Clustering of Phentermine HCL Drug from Online Patient Medication Reviews

Automatic Drug Side Effect Discovery from Online Patient-Submitted Reviews: Focus on Statin Drugs

In recent years, consumers have become empowered to share personal experiences regarding prescription drugs via Web page discussion groups. This paper describes our recent research involving automatically identifying adverse reactions from patient-provided drug reviews on health-related web sites. We focus on the statin class of cholesterol-lowering drugs. We extract a complete set of side effe...

An Assessment of Online Reviews of Hand Surgeons

 Background: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the number of reviews and scores for active members of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) in popular physician rating websites (Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com). Methods: A total of 433 ASSH active members were searched in two popular rating websites for a total of 866 web searches. Demographic data, overall and subcategory ...

automatic identification of messages related to adverse drug reactions from online user reviews using feature-based classification.

user-generated medical messages on internet contain extensive information related to adverse drug reactions (adrs) and are known as valuable resources for post-marketing drug surveillance. the aim of this study was to find an effective method to identify messages related to adrs automatically from online user reviews.we conducted experiments on online user reviews using different feature set an...

Medical Data Mining : Accessibility Improving Information using Online Patient Drug Reviews

We address the problem of information accessibility for patients concerned about, pharmaceutical drug side effects and experiences. We create a new corpus of online patieut-provided drug reviews and present our initial experiments on that corpus. We detect biases in term distributions that show a statistically significant association between a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins,...

Pharmacist-led medication reviews can reduce patient morbidity?