Combining Social Media and FDA Adverse Event Reporting System to Detect Adverse Drug Reactions

ConclusionThe accuracy of signal detection using social media can be improved by combining signals with those from SRSs. However, the combined system cannot achieve better AUC performance than data from FAERS alone, which may indicate that Twitter data are not ready to be integrated into a purely data-driven combination system.
Source: Drug Safety - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research