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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2016

OpenFDA: an innovative platform providing access to a wealth of FDA's publicly available data.

Taha A Kass-Hout, Zhiheng Xu, Matthew Mohebbi, Hans Nelsen, Adam Baker, Jonathan Levine, Elaine Johanson, Roselie A Bright

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Taha A Kass-HoutU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Zhiheng XuU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA zhiheng.xu@fda.hhs.gov.
Matthew MohebbiIodine, Inc. 34 Clyde Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Hans NelsenIodine, Inc. 34 Clyde Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Adam BakerIodine, Inc. 34 Clyde Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Jonathan LevineU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Elaine JohansonU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Roselie A BrightU.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe objective of openFDA is to facilitate access and use of big important Food and Drug Administration public datasets by developers, researchers, and the public through harmonization of data across disparate FDA datasets provided via application programming interfaces (APIs). MATERIALS AND

methodsUsing cutting-edge technologies deployed on FDA's new public cloud computing infrastructure, openFDA provides open data for easier, faster (over 300 requests per second per process), and better access to FDA datasets; open source code and documentation shared on GitHub for open community contributions of examples, apps and ideas; and infrastructure that can be adopted for other public health big data challenges.

resultsSince its launch on June 2, 2014, openFDA has developed four APIs for drug and device adverse events, recall information for all FDA-regulated products, and drug labeling. There have been more than 20 million API calls (more than half from outside the United States), 6000 registered users, 20,000 connected Internet Protocol addresses, and dozens of new software (mobile or web) apps developed. A case study demonstrates a use of openFDA data to understand an apparent association of a drug with an adverse event.

conclusionWith easier and faster access to these datasets, consumers worldwide can learn more about FDA-regulated products.

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Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsDatasets as TopicSoftwareUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationDrug LabelingGovernment RegulationOwnershipProduct Recalls and WithdrawalsUnited Statesadverse eventAPIapplication programming interfacedrug safetyopen dataopenFDAopen source

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PMID26644398
PMCPMC4901374

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