International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages e97-e103 , December 2009

Influence of the MedDRA® hierarchy on pharmacovigilance data mining results

  • Ronald K. Pearson

      Affiliations

    • ProSanos Corporation, 225 Market St, Suite 502, Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA
    • ,
  • Manfred Hauben

      Affiliations

    • Pfizer Corporation, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    • New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
    • Brunel University, West London, UK
    • ,
  • David I. Goldsmith

      Affiliations

    • Goldsmith Pharmacovigilance and Systems, New York, NY, USA
    • ,
  • A. Lawrence Gould

      Affiliations

    • Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA
    • ,
  • David Madigan

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Donald J. O’Hara

      Affiliations

    • ProSanos Corporation, 225 Market St, Suite 502, Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA
    • ,
  • Stephanie J. Reisinger

      Affiliations

    • ProSanos Corporation, 225 Market St, Suite 502, Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA
    • ,
  • Alan M. Hochberg

      Affiliations

    • ProSanos Corporation, 225 Market St, Suite 502, Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: ProSanos Corporation, 225 Market St, Suite 502, Harrisburg, PA 17102, USA. Tel.: +1 717 635 2124.

Received 17 November 2008 ,Accepted 13 January 2009.

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PII: S1386-5056(09)00003-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.01.001

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 78, Issue 12 , Pages e97-e103 , December 2009

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