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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Drug side effects"”.
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Identifying relationships among drug side-effects using probabilistic association rule mining
Side-effects of medical drugs have important implications for health care. Knowledge of side-effects can help guide appropriate prescription of drugs to patients. The study of drug side-effects is also a rich area of informatics research, for example linking side-effects to genetic variation or …
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Psychometric validity for the Matson Evaluation of drug side effects and the akathisia rating of movement scale
Akathisia is a movement disorder characterized by a sense of restlessness and increased motor activity. Movement disorders are primarily an iatrogenic result of mediation use. In the case of akathisia, this syndrome is easily misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder. As a result, there is a need to …
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Medical data mining : improving information accessibility using online patient drug reviews
… for patients concerned about, pharmaceutical drug side effects and experiences. We create a new corpus of online patient-provided drug reviews and present our initial experiments on that corpus. We detect biases in term distributions that show a statistically significant association between a …
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Clinical trend discovery and analysis of Taiwanese health insurance claims data
… and graphs. This pipeline was used to examine drug side effects and comorbidities observed across a population, accounting for demographic variables. We also studied patient-specific longitudinal matrices of medical events, which were highly sparse. We attempted quantitative imputation methods …
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A study to determine the palliative care needs of patients with drug resistant tuberculosis in the Southern sub-district of Cape Town
… The Palliative Care needs of patients with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB) are under-researched, yet pertinent in the management and control of DR-TB. Most literature reviewed focused on treatment schedules, outcomes, transmission, drug adherence, drug side effects and further …
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Pharmacist input into patients' self-reporting of adverse drug reactions.
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are common and should be reported to the CSM, particularly for newly marketed drugs. There is under-reporting of ADRs by doctors. Involving the patient in self-reporting, particularly when initiated by pharmacists is feasible and could help to improve reporting rates. …
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A mixed methods study to explore the outcomes, experiences and perceptions of women who attended a new counselling model for HIV-positive pregnant women accessing antenatal services in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa
… knowledge about: antiretroviral therapy, HIV, drug side effects and infant feeding. Conclusion: The poor uptake of the counselling intervention includes poor communication, service delivery challenges and social factors. The main motivation for initiating ART and maintaining adherence to …
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Evaluation of Intestinal Microbial Diversity and a New Antibiotic Regimen in Crohn's Disease Patients
… is needed for better treatment. Three antibiotic drugs – Clarithromycin (CLA), Rifabutin (RIF), and Clofazimine (CLO) have been used to treat CD patients suspected with MAP infection. However, the outcome has been controversial. The treatment dosage is high, the duration is long, and the reported …