Increased Confidence in Deduplication of Drug Safety Reports with Natural Language Processing of Narratives at the US Food and Drug Administration

• Main Authors: Kory Kreimeyer (Author), Oanh Dang (Author), Jonathan Spiker (Author), Paula Gish (Author), Jessica Weintraub (Author), Eileen Wu (Author), Robert Ball (Author), Taxiarchis Botsis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives millions of postmarket adverse event reports for drug and therapeutic biologic products every year. One of the most salient issues with these submissions is report duplication, where an adverse event experienced by one patient is reported multiple t...