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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

Building and evaluation of a structured representation of pharmacokinetics information presented in SPCs: from existing conceptual views of pharmacokinetics associated with natural language processing to object-oriented design.

Catherine Duclos-Cartolano, Alain Venot

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Catherine Duclos-CartolanoLIM&BIO, UFR de Santé, Médecine, Biologie Humaine, Université, Bobigny, France.
Alain Venot

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Abstract

objectiveDevelop a detailed representation of pharmacokinetics (PK), derived from the information in Summaries of Product Characteristics (SPCs), for use in computerized systems to help practitioners in pharmaco-therapeutic reasoning.

methodsAvailable knowledge about PK was studied to identify main PK concepts and organize them in a preliminary generic model. The information from 1950 PK SPC-texts in the French language was studied using a morpho-syntactic analyzer. It produced a list of candidate terms (CTs) from which those describing main PK concepts were selected. The contexts in which they occurred were explored to discover co-occurring CTs. The regrouping according to CT semantic types led to a detailed object-oriented model of PK. The model was evaluated. A random sample of 100 PK texts structured according to the model was judged for completeness and semantic accuracy by 8 experts who were blinded to other experts' responses.

resultsThe PK text file contained about 300000 words, and the morpho-syntactic analysis extracted 17520 different CTs. The context of 592 CTs was studied and used to deduce the PK model. It consists of four entities: the information about the real PK process, the experimental protocol, the mathematical modeling, and the influence of factors causing variation. Experts judged that the PK model represented the information in 100 sample PK texts completely in 89% of cases and nearly completely in the other 11%. There was no distortion of meaning in 98% of cases and little distortion in the remainder.

conclusionThe PK model seems to be applicable to all SPCs and can be used to retranscribe legal information from PK sections of SPCs into structured databases.

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Models, TheoreticalNatural Language ProcessingPharmacokineticsPharmacopoeias as TopicArtificial IntelligenceDatabases, FactualDrug Information ServicesInformation Storage and RetrievalPharmaceutical PreparationsSoftwareSoftware DesignPharmaceutical Preparations

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PMID12626375
PMCPMC342050

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