Timeline representation of clinical data: usability and added value for pharmacovigilance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacovigilance consists in monitoring and preventing the occurrence of adverse drug reactions (ADR). This activity requires the collection and analysis of data from the patient record or any other sources to find clues of a causality link between the drug and the ADR. This can be time-consuming because often patient data are heterogeneous and scattered in several files. To facilitate this task, we developed a timeline prototype to gather and classify patient data according to their chronology. Here, we evaluated its usability and quantified its contribution to routine pharmacovigilance using real ADR cases.

Methods

The timeline prototype was assessed using the biomedical data warehouse eHOP (from entrepôt de données biomédicales de l'HOPital) of the Rennes Univ

SUBMITTER: Ledieu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194681 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature