Assessment of the Utility of Social Media for Broad-Ranging Statistical Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance: Results from the WEB-RADR Project.

Ola CasterJuergen DietrichMarie-Laure KürzingerMagnus LerchSimon MaskellG Niklas NorénStéphanie Tcherny-LessenotBenoit VromanAntoni WisniewskiJohn van Stekelenborg

Published in: Drug safety (2019)

Our results clearly suggest that broad-ranging statistical signal detection in Twitter and Facebook, using currently available methods for adverse event recognition, performs poorly and cannot be recommended at the expense of other pharmacovigilance activities.

Keyphrases

social media
adverse drug
health information
loop mediated isothermal amplification
real time pcr
label free
drug induced
healthcare
emergency department