Incorporating Unstructured Patient Narratives and Health Insurance Claims Data in Pharmacovigilance: Natural Language Processing Analysis of Patient-Generated Texts About Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

• Main Authors: Shinichi Matsuda (Author), Takumi Ohtomo (Author), Shiho Tomizawa (Author), Yuki Miyano (Author), Miwako Mogi (Author), Hiroshi Kuriki (Author), Terumi Nakayama (Author), Shinichi Watanabe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundGaining insights that cannot be obtained from health care databases from patients has become an important topic in pharmacovigilance. ObjectiveOur objective was to demonstrate a use case, in which patient-generated data were incorporated in pharmacovigilance, to understand the epidemiology...