Detecting Pharmacovigilance Signals Combining Electronic Medical Records With Spontaneous Reports: A Case Study of Conventional Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Main Authors: Liwei Wang (Author), Majid Rastegar-Mojarad (Author), Zhiliang Ji (Author), Sijia Liu (Author), Ke Liu (Author), Sungrim Moon (Author), Feichen Shen (Author), Yanshan Wang (Author), Lixia Yao (Author), John M. Davis III (Author), Hongfang Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Multiple data sources are preferred in adverse drug event (ADEs) surveillance owing to inadequacies of single source. However, analytic methods to monitor potential ADEs after prolonged drug exposure are still lacking. In this study we propose a method aiming to screen potential ADEs by combining FD...