Typology of drug misuses created from information available in health fora

Elise Bigeard , Natalia Grabar (1) , Frantz Thiessard (2)

1 STL - Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163
2 Epidémiologie et Biostatistique [Bordeaux]

Patients seldom report the misuse of drugs to their physicians. Hence, other sources of information are necessary for studying these issues. We assume that online health fora can provide such information and propose to exploit them for building a typology of drug misuses. The misuses detected are structured according to the goals of patients: we distinguished three types of non-intentional misuses and 14 types of intentional misuses. This work will be used to guide future task of automatic detection of drug misuses.

Mots clés: Drug misuse; Patient safety; Pharmacovigilance; France

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Traitement du texte et du document; Web

Elise Bigeard, Natalia Grabar, Frantz Thiessard. Typology of drug misuses created from information available in health fora. Medical Informatics Europe conference (MIE ), Apr 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. ⟨halshs-01968313⟩