The Value of Social Media Analysis for Adverse Events Detection and Pharmacovigilance: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse drug events pose an enormous public health burden, leading to hospitalization, disability, and death. Even the adverse events (AEs) categorized as nonserious can severely impact on patient's quality of life, adherence, and persistence. Monitoring medication safety is challenging. Web-based patient reports on social media may be a useful supplementary source of real-world data. Despite the growth of sophisticated techniques for identifying AEs using social media data, a consensus has not been reached as to the value of social media in relation to more traditional data sources.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate and characterize the utility of social media analysis in adverse drug event detection and pharmacovigilance as compared with other data sources (

SUBMITTER: Golder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11415724 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature