Journal
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab347
Keywords
spontaneous reporting systems; signal detection; disproportionality analysis; time to onset algorithm
Funding
- JSPS KAKENHI [19K20731]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19K20731] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Continuous evaluation of drug safety is essential post-approval, with spontaneous reporting systems being an important tool for timely detection of adverse events. In addition to traditional disproportionality analysis, new signal detection methods exist but may be prone to misinterpretation.
Continuous evaluation of drug safety is needed following approval to determine adverse events (AEs) in patient populations with diverse backgrounds. Spontaneous reporting systems are an important source of information for the detection of AEs not identified in clinical trials and for safety assessments that reflect the real-world use of drugs in specific populations and clinical settings. The use of spontaneous reporting systems is expected to detect drug-related AEs early after the launch of a new drug. Spontaneous reporting systems do not contain data on the total number of patients that use a drug; therefore, signal detection by disproportionality analysis, focusing on differences in the ratio of AE reports, is frequently used. In recent years, new analyses have been devised, including signal detection methods focused on the difference in the time to onset of an AE, methods that consider the patient background and those that identify drug-drug interactions. However, unlike commonly used statistics, the results of these analyses are open to misinterpretation if the method and the characteristics of the spontaneous reporting system cannot be evaluated properly. Therefore, this review describes signal detection using data mining, considering traditional methods and the latest knowledge, and their limitations.
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