Harvesting Drug Effectiveness from Social Media

Drug effectiveness describes the capacity of a drug to cure a disease, which is of great importance for drug safety. To get this information, a number of real-world patient-oriented outcomes are required. However, current surveillance systems can only capture a small portion of them, and there is a time lag in processing the reported data. Since social media provides quantities of patient-oriented user posts in real-time, it is of great value to...