Machine Learning to Improve Decision Support for Preventing Adverse Drug Events
Tora Hammar1,2, Daniel Nilsson2, Olof Björneld2
1eHealth Institute, Department of medicine and optometry, Faculty of health and life sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Abstract:
One approach to preventing adverse drug events (ADEs), such as harmful drug interactions, is the implementation of clinical decision support systems (CDSS). In an ongoing project, we are investigating the accuracy of the rule-based CDSS currently utilized in Swedish healthcare for predicting ADEs and exploring whether machine learning (ML) can improve these predictions. By analyzing real-world healthcare data from a Swedish region spanning a 10-year period, we show that ML has potential to improve ADE predictions compared to existing rule-based CDSS.
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