Enabling social listening for cardiac safety monitoring: Proceedings from a drug information association –cardiac safety research consortium cosponsored think tank

Publication date: December 2017 Source:American Heart Journal, Volume 194 Author(s): Harry A. Seifert, Raleigh E. Malik, Mondira Bhattacharya, Kevin R. Campbell, Sally Okun, Carrie Pierce, Jeffrey Terkowitz, J. Rick Turner, Mitchell W. Krucoff, Gregory E. Powell This white paper provides a summary of the presentations and discussions from a think tank on “Enabling Social Listening for Cardiac Safety Monitoring” trials that was cosponsored by the Drug Information Association and the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium, and held at the White Oak headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration on June 3, 2016. The meeting's goals were to explore current methods of collecting and evaluating social listening data and to consider their applicability to cardiac safety surveillance. Social listening is defined as the act of monitoring public postings on the Internet. It has several theoretical advantages for drug and device safety. First, these include the ability to detect adverse events that are “missed” by traditional sources and the ability to detect adverse events sooner than would be allowed by traditional sources, both by affording near–real-time access to data from culturally and geographically diverse sources. Social listening can also potentially introduce a novel patient voice into the conversation about drug safety, which could uniquely augment understanding of real-world medication use obtained from more traditional methodologies. Finally, it can...
Source: American Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research