Essays about: "Adverse Event Reports"

Found 5 essays containing the words Adverse Event Reports.

  1. 1. Named Entity Recognition for Case Narratives of Adverse Event Reports

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Jayant Yadav; [2023]
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    Abstract : In the field of pharmacovigilance (PV), signal detection and assessment activities play a crucial role. They require a PV assessor to read through countless adverse event reports which is manual labor-intensive work. To ease the reading process, visual highlighters can be provided by leveraging natural language processing techniques. READ MORE

  2. 2. Free-text Informed Duplicate Detection of COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Event Reports

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för systemteknik

    Author : Erik Turesson; [2022]
    Keywords : Duplicate detection; Deduplication; Record linkage; Adverse Event Reports; COVID-19 Vaccines; Uppsala Monitoring Centre; VigiBase; Machine Learning; Gradient Boosted Decision Trees; BERT; Natural Language Processing; Pharmacovigilance; Individual Case Safety Reports;

    Abstract : To increase medicine safety, researchers use adverse event reports to assess causal relationships between drugs and suspected adverse reactions. VigiBase, the world's largest database of such reports, collects data from numerous sources, introducing the risk of several records referring to the same case. READ MORE

  3. 3. Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions from Product Labels using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

    Author : Shachi Bista; [2020]
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    Abstract : Pharamacovigilance relates to activities involving drug safety monitoring in the post-marketing phase of the drug development life-cycle. Despite rigorous trials and experiments that drugs undergo before they are available in the market, they can still cause previously unobserved side-effects (also known as adverse events) due to drug–drug interaction, genetic, physiological or demographic reasons. READ MORE

  4. 4. Improving the speed and quality of an Adverse Event cluster analysis with Stepwise Expectation Maximization and Community Detection

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper

    Author : Nils Erlanson; [2020]
    Keywords : Adverse Drug Reactions; Pharmacovigilance; Cluster Analysis; Stepwise Expectation Maximization; Community Detection; Topic Modelling;

    Abstract : Adverse drug reactions are unwanted effects alongside the intended benefit of a drug and might be responsible for 3-7\% of hospitalizations. Finding such reactions is partly done by analysing individual case safety reports (ICSR) of adverse events. The reports consist of categorical terms that describe the event. READ MORE

  5. 5. Knowledge Management as a tool in Health Care Systems optimization : The case of Närsjukvården Österlen AB

    University essay from Nordiska ministerrådet/Nordic School of Public Health NHV

    Author : Anders Lassen Nielsen; [2006]
    Keywords : Knowledge Management; Optimizing Health Care Systems; Efficiency; Turnaround; Lean Management;

    Abstract : Background: Närsjukvården Österlen AB (=NÖAB) won a five-year contract, late in 2000, to operate the local health care services in Simrishamn on behalf of the Region Skåne. The economical forecast for 2002 was a loss of 18 million SEK. A turnaround was urgent. READ MORE