| Literature DB >> 22336431 |
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Each day, millions of health consumers seek drug-related information on the Web. Despite some efforts in linking related resources, drug information is largely scattered in a wide variety of websites of different quality and credibility.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22336431 PMCID: PMC3305679 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Med Inform Decis Mak ISSN: 1472-6947 Impact factor: 2.796
Figure 1Workflow for dosage form identification and performance evaluation. Abbreviations: IN: Ingredients; BN: Brand Name; SCDF: Semantic Clinical Drug Form; SBD: Semantic Branded Drug Form; DF: Dosage Form.
Figure 2Part of DFtree: Dosage forms organized in a hierarchical tree structure.
Figure 3Snapshot of AHFS drug monograph 'Acetaminophen' in MedlinePlus.
Patterns for extracting dosage form evidence sentences
| Pattern | Description | Example sentences | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [...] come as [...] | Sentence contains the phrase 'come as' or its variants. | Ophthalmic ciprofloxacin comes as a solution (liquid) and an ointment to apply to the eyes.(from monograph | |
| [...] come in [...] | Sentence contains the phrase 'come in' or its variants. | Golimumab injection comes in prefilled syringes and auto-injection devices.(from monograph | |
| ^[ | The first term of sentence is an ingredient term in title. | Nicotine gum is used by mouth as a chewing gum and should not be swallowed.(from monograph | |
| ^[the]medication [...] | The subject of sentence is 'medication' or its variants modified by a determiner. | The medication will be added to an intravenous fluid that will drip through a needle or catheter placed in your vein for 60 minutes two or three times a day.(from monograph | |
| ^[the]drug [...] | The subject of sentence is 'drug' or its variants modified by a determiner. | The drug is taken by mouth in capsule form.(from monograph | |
Figure 4Comparison of dosage form distribution on development and test set.
Overview of dosage form identification performance
| Gold standard (100) | Silver Standard (933) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development (55) | Test(45) | Development (462) | Test(471) | ||
| Precision | Mean | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.75 | 0.70 |
| Standard deviation | 0.30 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.31 | |
| Median | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.75 | 0.67 | |
| Interquartile range | 0.38 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |
| Recall | Mean | 0.93 | 0.98 | 0.82 | 0.81 |
| Standard deviation | 0.24 | 0.09 | 0.27 | 0.31 | |
| Median | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Interquartile range | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.33 | |
| F-Measure | Mean | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.74 | 0.71 |
| Standard deviation | 0.27 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.27 | |
| Median | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.67 | 0.67 | |
| Interquartile range | 0.24 | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.35 | |
Figure 5Comparison of our dosage form identification method with baseline.