A method for controlling complex confounding effects in the detection of adverse drug reactions using electronic health records.

CONCLUSIONS: This data-driven method is effective in controlling for confounding, resulting in either a higher or similar precision when compared with four comparators, has the unique ability to provide insight into confounders for each specific medication-ADR pair, and can be easily adapted to other EHR systems.
PMID: 23907285 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - August 1, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Li Y, Salmasian H, Vilar S, Chase H, Friedman C, Wei Y Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research