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Computing limits on medicine risks based on collections of individual case reports

Overview of attention for article published in Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2014
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Title
Computing limits on medicine risks based on collections of individual case reports
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Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1742-4682-11-15
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Authors

Ola Caster, G Niklas Norén, I Ralph Edwards

Abstract

Quantifying a medicine's risks for adverse effects is crucial in assessing its value as a therapeutic agent. Rare adverse effects are often not detected until after the medicine is marketed and used in large and heterogeneous patient populations, and risk quantification is even more difficult. While individual case reports of suspected harm from medicines are instrumental in the detection of previously unknown adverse effects, they are currently not used for risk quantification. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how and when limits on medicine risks can be computed from collections of individual case reports.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 27%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 9%
Other 1 9%
Student > Master 1 9%
Other 1 9%
Unknown 3 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 55%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 9%
Unknown 3 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2014.
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#14,777,143
of 22,749,166 outputs
Outputs from Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
#163
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#126,035
of 223,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
#4
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