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SUBMITTER: White RW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4111778 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White R W RW Harpaz R R Shah N H NH DuMouchel W W Horvitz E E
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 20140408 2
The promise of augmenting pharmacovigilance with patient-generated data drawn from the Internet was called out by a scientific committee charged with conducting a review of the current and planned pharmacovigilance practices of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To this end, we present a study on harnessing behavioral data drawn from Internet search logs to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs). By analyzing search queries collected from 80 million consenting users and by using a widely r ...[more]