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ReviewDrug safety2019

Overview of the First Natural Language Processing Challenge for Extracting Medication, Indication, and Adverse Drug Events from Electronic Health Record Notes (MADE 1.0).

Abhyuday Jagannatha, Feifan Liu, Weisong Liu, Hong Yu

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Review in Drug safety, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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73citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 167 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Abhyuday JagannathaCollege of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-5481
Feifan LiuDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences and Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
Weisong LiuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, 220 Pawtucket St., Lowell, MA, 01854-2874, USA.
Hong YuCollege of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. hong.yu@umassmed.edu.
University of Massachusetts Lowell · USUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

EHR Anticoagulants PharmacovigilanceR01HL125089 · NHLBI · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI YU, HONG · 2015 to 2019
$4.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL125089NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL125089
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis work describes the Medication and Adverse Drug Events from Electronic Health Records (MADE 1.0) corpus and provides an overview of the MADE 1.0 2018 challenge for extracting medication, indication, and adverse drug events (ADEs) from electronic health record (EHR) notes.

objectiveThe goal of MADE is to provide a set of common evaluation tasks to assess the state of the art for natural language processing (NLP) systems applied to EHRs supporting drug safety surveillance and pharmacovigilance. We also provide benchmarks on the MADE dataset using the system submissions received in the MADE 2018 challenge.

methodsThe MADE 1.0 challenge has released an expert-annotated cohort of medication and ADE information comprising 1089 fully de-identified longitudinal EHR notes from 21 randomly selected patients with cancer at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. Using this cohort as a benchmark, the MADE 1.0 challenge designed three shared NLP tasks. The named entity recognition (NER) task identifies medications and their attributes (dosage, route, duration, and frequency), indications, ADEs, and severity. The relation identification (RI) task identifies relations between the named entities: medication-indication, medication-ADE, and attribute relations. The third shared task (NER-RI) evaluates NLP models that perform the NER and RI tasks jointly. In total, 11 teams from four countries participated in at least one of the three shared tasks, and 41 system submissions were received in total.

resultsThe best systems F

conclusionMADE results show that recent progress in NLP has led to remarkable improvements in NER and RI tasks for the clinical domain. However, some room for improvement remains, particularly in the NER-RI task.

Indexed as

Natural Language ProcessingDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsElectronic Health RecordsHumansMedication SystemsPattern Recognition, Automated

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PMID30649735
PMCPMC6860017
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