International Journal of Epidemiology
International Journal of Epidemiology
5 years ago

Use of text-mining methods to improve efficiency in the calculation of drug exposure to support pharmacoepidemiology studies.

Samantha Alvarez-Madrazo, Jacqueline Caldwell, Clifford Nangle, Stuart McTaggart, Marion Bennie, Helen Colhoun
Efficient generation of structured dose instructions that enable researchers to calculate drug exposure is central to pharmacoepidemiology studies. Our aim was to design and test an algorithm to codify dose instructions, applied to the NHS Scotland Prescribing Information System (PIS) that records about 100 million prescriptions per annum.

Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx264

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx264

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