Evaluation of statistical association measures for the automatic signal generation in pharmacovigilance.

Evaluation of statistical association measures for the automatic signal generation in pharmacovigilance.

Pharmacovigilance aims at detecting the adverse effects of marketed drugs. It is generally based on the spontaneous reporting of events thought to be the adverse effects of drugs. Spontaneous Reporting Systems (SRSs) supply huge databases that pharmacovigilance experts cannot exhaustively exploit wi...

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izdano v:IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 9, 4 (2005).
Glavni avtor: Roux, E.
Format: Article
Jezik:English
Teme:
Adverse drug reaction reporting system.
Adverse effect detection.
Automatic signal generation.
Computer simulation.
Data mining methods.
Information system.
Marketed drugs.
Pharmacovigilance.
Signal generation criteria.
Simulated datasets.
Spontaneous reporting system.
Statistical association measures.
Validation studies.