Veracuity Blog Biases in pharmacovigilance reporting The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database is often taken as the “gold standard’ to which data gathered from social media is compared. This practice, although useful in a practical sense, has some limitations that need to be considered. Disproportionality calculations rely on comparator incidence as a valid…
DetailsVeracuity Blog Detection and annotation of data from social media Manual annotation of vast amounts of data obtained from social media is a costly commitment because the work must be done by experts with domain knowledge. The amount of data required to train the algorithm is in the tens of thousands of records. Extraction of…
DetailsVeracuity Blog Twitter and Facebook as a source of pharmacovigilance data Social media use has substantially expanded over the last decade, with 321 million monthly users and 126 million daily users on Twitter. This year, Twitter made a few tweaks to its own user metric: instead of daily users, they count monetizable daily active users.…
DetailsVeracuity Blog Quality of evidence in pharmacovigilance Database WITHDRAWN lists 578 drugs that were pulled out of global markets due to safety reasons. Most importantly, the database contains information about therapeutic targets, off-targets, underlying mechanisms of toxicity involved, and biological pathways. In addition, the database maps single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs), genetic variations that are associated with toxicity…
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