Potential drug-drug interactions (PDDIs) are a significant public health concern. Unfortunately, the fragmented, incomplete, and dynamic nature of evidence on PDDIs makes designing effect clinical decisions support tools very challenging. In this talk, I present a conceptual model of how evidence issues affect patient safety with respect to PDDIs. I then propose a new paradigm for representing PDDI knowledge that I hypothesize will result in more clinically useful evidence than is currently possible. Finally, I place several of my recent research projects in the context of the new paradigm and make some final suggestions for future work. Throughout the talk I try to highlight the various roles that natural language processing, Semantic Web technologies, and pharmacoepidemiology have to play in improving medication safety for patients exposed to PDDIs.
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Addressing gaps in clinically useful evidence on potential drug-drug interactions
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Addressing gaps in
clinically useful evidence
on drug-drug
interactions
May 2nd
2013
BioDLP Seminar at the
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Richard Boyce, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Goals for this talk
• Describe potential drug-drug interactions
(PDDIs)
– the significant challenges facing clinicians and
maintainers of drug information systems.
• Present a new PDDI knowledge
representation paradigm
– that I hypothesize will yield more clinically
relevant evidence than is currently possible
• Discuss my BioDLP research
– Within the context of the new paradigm
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What is a PDDI?
• Drug-drug interaction:
– a clinically meaningful alteration of the
effect of a drug (object drug) occurs as a
result of coadministration of another
drug (precipitant drug) [10]
• Potential drug-drug interaction
(PDDI):
– two drugs known to interact are
prescribed whether or not harm ensues
[10]
• Pharmacokinetic or
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The clinical importance of PDDIs
• PDDIs are a significant source of
preventable drug-related harm
– 13.3% of preventable errors leading to
an ADE [1]
– 7% (23/338) of the ADEs attributable to
PDDIs [2]
– 16 cohort and case-control studies
reported an elevated risk of
hospitalization in elderly patients who
were exposed to PDDIs [3]
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Knowledge is important
• Failure to properly manage a PDDI is a
medical error
• The IOM has noted that a lack of drug
knowledge is one of the most frequent
proximal causes such errors [4]
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Key point
• Many drug information systems
disagree about PDDIs
– the specific ones that exist
– their potential to cause harm
• This leads to
– confusion and frustration for clinicians
– greater risks of harm to patients
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Evidence of drug compendia problems
• Three PDDI information sources agreed upon
only 25% of 59 contraindicated drug pairs
found in black box warnings [5]
• 18 (28%) of 64 pharmacy information and
clinical decisions support systems correctly
identified 13 clinically significant DDIs [6]
• Four sources agreed on only 2.2% of 406
PDDIs considered to be “major” by at least one
source [7]
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Why do compendia disagree?
• Four types of information to decide if a PDDI
warrants clinical action. [21]
• Collecting evidence related to each information
item on 244 PDDIs enabled them to determine
that 12% would require no action by physicians
[8]
11. A conceptual model – 30,000 feet
view
Limits the effectiveness of
PDDI alerting and
CPOE systems
Drug Compendia synthesize PDDI
evidence into knowledge but
•May fail to include important PDDIs
•Often disagree about PDDI evidence
and seriousness ranking
•May include numerous PDDIs with
little evidence for liability reasons
PDDI adverse event
Increases the risk of
PDDI evidence
Scattered across numerous sources
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PDDI evidence – pre-market studies
Pre-market studies establish PDDI
feasibility but:
•usually do not indicate ADE
seriousness, incidence, or risk
•Focus on generally younger and
healthier populations
•Do not exist for many older drugs
Product labeling
Reported in
Scientific literature
Rarely reported in
See references 31 and 32
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PDDI evidence – post-market studies
Post-market studies can provide
evidence of PDDI risk and incidence
if well-designed but:
•rarely are randomized studies due to
ethical considerations
•older drugs less likely to be studied
Product labeling
Scientific literature
Reported inRarely reported in
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PDDI evidence – Clinical experience
Product labeling
Clinical experience can provide first
warning of a PDDI's and offers
unique insight on PDDI severity:
•are often case reports of low
evidential quality
•there is no general way to collect and
share these insights
Rarely reported in
Rarely reported in
Scientific literature
15. Evidence from the drug compendium
perspective
Pre-market studies Post-market studies
Product labeling
Reported in
Clinical experience
Scientific literature
Rarely reported in
Rarely reported in
Reported in
Rarely reported in
Drug Compendia synthesize PDDI
evidence into knowledge but
•May fail to include important PDDIs
•Often disagree about PDDI evidence
and seriousness ranking
•May include numerous PDDIs with
little evidence for liability reasons
Source for
Source for
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Effects on the clinician and patient
PDDI alerting and
CPOE systems
Drug Compendia synthesize PDDI
evidence into knowledge but
•May fail to include important PDDIs
•Often disagree about PDDI evidence
and seriousness ranking
•May include numerous PDDIs with
little evidence for liability reasons
PDDI adverse event
Increases the risk of
Limits the effectiveness of
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PDDI over-alerting
• Systems that provide PDDI alerts at
the point of care often alert to PDDIs
that have little potential clinical
significance
– frustrating clinicians
“Drug safety alerts are overridden by clinicians
in 49% to 96% of cases” [11]
– can lead to inappropriate responses
“An increased number of non-critical alerts…
was the only variable associated with an
inappropriate provider response” [12]
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Summary of challenges for PDDI
knowledge representation
• PDDI evidence is distributed, dynamic, and
of varying quality
• There are significant gaps in PDDI evidence
making it hard to assess
– what is the potential harmful effect?
– who is the PDDI most likely to affect?
– when is a patient most at risk?
• Alerting has to become more
intelligent!
20. The new paradigm
Product labeling
Scientific literature
A framework for representing PDDI
assertions as interoperable Linked
Data
Pharmacoepidemiology
studies
Semantic
annotation
High priority
PDDIs for
research
Semantic annotation
Reduced risk
of a PDDI
medication
error!
Clinical experience
Better synthesis of PDDI evidence,
easier identification of gaps
Expected benefits:
•More complete and accurate PDDI evidence
•Better informed pharmacists and other
clinicians
•More effective PDDI alerting and decisions
support systems
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Elements of the new paradigm
• Linked Data [13]
– a Semantic Web technology that makes
distributed knowledge sources
interoperable, with interconnections
providing rich context that would be
unavailable from any single database
• Semantic annotation [14]
– a technology that enhances digital
information artifacts by linking them to
provenance and expert commentary
• Pharmacoepidemiology [15]
– an approach to studying of the use and
effects of drugs in large numbers of people
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Linked Data
• What is it?
– 3 minute jargon free introduction:
• player.vimeo.com/video/36752317
• My research has shown Linked Data to
be a potentially effective means of
linking clinical drug information [9]
– Several high quality resources
– More complete information
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predicate
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Data model – triples
• Syntax – RDF
– The subject, predicate, and objects are
specified by URIs
<http://.../AnneHathaway> <http://.../Married> <http://../Shakespeare>
<http://.../Shakespeare> <http://.../Wrote> <http://../Hamlet>
subject object
AnnHathaway
Shakespeare
Hamlet
married
wrote
28. Recap of the new paradigm
Product labeling
Scientific literature
A framework for representing PDDI
assertions as interoperable Linked
Data
Pharmacoepidemiology
studies
Semantic
annotation
High priority
PDDIs for
research
Semantic annotation
Reduced risk
of a PDDI
medication
error!
Clinical experience
Better synthesis of PDDI evidence,
easier identification of gaps
Expected benefits:
•More complete and accurate PDDI evidence
•Better informed pharmacists and other
clinicians
•More effective PDDI alerting and decisions
support systems
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Anticipated benefits of the new paradigm
• A computable representation of PDDI safety
concerns that is linked to:
– evidence
– expert input, and
– pharmacoepidemiologic study results
• More complete, timely, and accurate PDDI
evidence
– easier integration for drug compendia and CPOE
developers
• Better informed clinicians and patients
31. Overview of my recent PDDI studies
Product labeling
Scientific literature
A framework for representing PDDI
assertions as interoperable Linked
Data
Pharmacoepidemiology studies
Semantic
annotation
High priority PDDIs
for research
Semantic annotation
Clinical experience
Better synthesis of PDDI evidence, easier
identification of gaps
A, B
C
E G
A. Boyce et al. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2012. Apr;10(2):139-50. [22]
B. Boyce et al. Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2012. Oct;46(10):1287-98 [23]
C. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2012. Workshop on BioNLP. 206-213 [16]
D. & E. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2013. AMIA Summit on
Translational Bioinformatics. 28-32 (D), 64-68 (E). [18,19]
F. Boyce et al. J Biomed Semantics. 2013. Jan 26;4(1):5. [9]
G. Boyce et al. Poster at Aging Institute Research Day. 2013. [20]
F
D
32. Linked Data – linking product labels to the
“Web of Drug Identity”
Product labeling
A framework for representing PDDI
assertions as interoperable Linked
Data
C. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2012. Workshop on BioNLP. 206-213 [16]
E. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2013. AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. 64-68 [19]
F. Boyce et al. J Biomed Semantics. 2013. Jan 26;4(1):5. [9]
E
Hypothesis: A Linked Data knowledge base of drug
product labels with accurate links to other relevant
sources of drug information will provide a dynamic
platform for drug information NLP that provides real value
to clinical and translational researchers.
Better synthesis of PDDI evidence, easier
identification of gaps
F
C
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Key point
• LinkedSPLs [26] is a Linked Data version
of SPLs
– >36,000 FDA-approved prescription and
over-the-counter drugs present in
DailyMed
– simplifies access to SPL content
– interoperable with other important drug
terminologies and resources
– Enables queries across drug information
resources…
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Example cross-resource queries
• What are the known targets of all active
ingredients that are classified as
antidepressants?
• Is there a pharmacogenomics concern for
any of the drugs associated with
Hyperkalemia
• Show the evidence support for all
pharmacokinetic PDDIs affecting
buproprion that are supported by a
randomized study
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An Example - extracting PDDIs from product
labels Product labeling
C
C. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2012. Workshop on BioNLP. 206-213 [16]
Recently published NLP algorithm specifically designed to extract PDDIs
from drug product labels
• A drug package insert PK PDDI corpus [24]:
• 592 PK PDDIs,
• 3,351 active ingredients,
• 234 drug product mentions,
• 201 metabolite mentions.
• SVM performed best
• F = 0.859 for pharmacokinetic PDDI identification
• F = 0.949 for modality assignment
• Syntactic information helped with sentences containing both
interacting and non-interacting pairs
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Linkage to external sources
• There are many sources of drug information
that are complementary to each other.
– DrugBank: contains drug targets, pathways,
interactions
– RxNorm: provides UMLS mappings
– VA NDF-RT: PDDIs and drug classification
– ChEBI: provides rigorous classification of drugs
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Two linking studies
• Active ingredients in the structured portion of SPLs
to DrugBank [19]
• Three different approaches
• One fully unsupervised
• PDDIs (VA NDF-RT) to the Drug Interactions section
of 26 psychotropics [9]
• What benefits for this linkage?
• Collaboration with Majid Rastegar-Mojarad
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Linking Active ingredients in SPLs
to DrugBank
• Three different linking approaches to link
to DrugBank
1. Structure string (InChI)
2. Ontology label matching (ChEBI)
3. Unsupervised linkage point discovery
(Automated) [30]
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Linkage to DrugBank – Results
• 1,246 active ingredients (53%) could be mapped to
DrugBank by at least one method
• 1,096 unmapped ingredients
• The three approaches complement each other
InChI
identifier
ChEBI
identifier
InChI +
ChEBI
Automatic
InChI identifier 424 261 424 395
ChEBI identifier --- 707 707 650
InChI + ChEBI -- -- 831 791
Automatic -- -- -- 1162
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• The automatic approach performs very well
– A greater number of accurate links discovered
with less effort
• A significant number remain unmapped:
– Some salt or racemic forms of mapped ingredients
(e.g., alpha tocopherol acetate D)
– Elements (e.g., gold, iodine), and variety of natural
organic compounds including pollens (N~200)
• Not all ingredients are included in DrugBank
– other resources may be required to obtain
complete mappings for active ingredients.
Linking methods conclusions
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Linking from VA NDF-RT to LinkedSPLs
• How often would it provide more
complete information?
VA NDF-RT in
Bioportal
October 2012
SPARQL: Get all DDIs
for antidepressants
Filter out DDIs
previously identified
in antidepressant
product labels
Tabulate potentially
novel PDDIs
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PDDI studies comparing information sources
Product label PDDIs for 20 drugs manually identified [22]
• ~70 interactions
• Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic
We filtered NDF-RT PDDIs
• String matching and an expanded version of the PDDI table
• ~2,500 drug-drug and drug-class pairs
Face validity but future work needed for
• validate the accuracy of this approach
• create a more scalable approach
Filter out DDIs
previously identified
in antidepressant
product labels
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Linking from VA NDF-RT - results
• At least one potentially novel interaction was linked
to a product label for products containing each of
the 20 antidepressants
– tranylcypromine (33), nefazodone (31), fluoxetine (28)
• Several cases where all of the PDDIs were
potentially novel
– e.g., trazodone, venlafaxine, trimipramine
• Pharmacist review
– Several true positives
• e.g., escitalopram-tapentadol, escitalopram-
metoclopramide
– Some false positives
• e.g., nefazodone-digoxin (digitalis)
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The complete proof of concept
• http://tinyurl.com/c53skm4
– 29 psychotropic drug products
– Created using four Semantic Web nodes
1. http://thedatahub.org/dataset/linked-structured-product-labels
2. http://thedatahub.org/dataset/linkedct
3. http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/47101
4. http://thedatahub.org/dataset/the-drug-interaction-knowledge-base
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Concluding points
• The paradigm provides a framework
for tying together
– NLP for extracting PDDIs
– NLP for linking evidence it to PDDIs
– Aggregating existing PDDI resources in a
single framework
• Research prioritization
• Community engagement
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Acknowledgements
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (K12HS019461).
• NIH/NCATS (KL2TR000146),
• NIH/NIGMS (U19 GM61388; the Pharmacogenomic Research
Network)
• NIH/NLM (T15 LM007059-24)
• The Drug Interaction Knowledge Base team
– John Horn Pharm.D, Carol Collins MD, Greg Gardner, Rob
Guzman
• W3C LODD Task Force and the Clinical Genomics Working
Group
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60. Semantic annotation and Linked Data
Product labeling
A framework for representing PDDI
assertions as interoperable Linked
Data
Semantic annotation
D. Boyce et al. Proceedings of the 2013. AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. 28-32 [18]
D
D – Semantic annotation of pharmacogenomics statements in
drug product labeling
• First semantically annotated corpus of clinical pharmacogenomics
statements present in drug product labeling
• Potential impact
• pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic
• Patient specific risk factors
• concomitant medications
• medical conditions
• Recommendations
• dosage, drug administration, alternatives, monitoring, and tests
• First pharmacogenomics dataset to use the W3C Open Data
Annotation standard [25]
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Pharmacogenomics example - Codeine
Predicate Object
drug CODEINE
biomarker CYP2D6
variant Ultra-rapid
metabolizer
Pharmacokinetic
effect
Metabolism-
increase
Pharmacodynamic
effect
Drug-toxicity-risk-
increase
Predicate Object
hasSource URL to product label
Exact-text “Nursing mothers…”
Preceding-
text
…
Post-text …
ex:body-1 ex:target-1
ex:annotation-1
about
“Nursing mothers who are ultra-rapid metabolizers may
also experience overdose symptoms such as extreme
sleepiness, confusion, or shallow breathing.”
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Risk factors
patient characteristics X potential adverse event
patient characteristics X DDI mechanism
drug characteristics
route of administration, dose, timing, sequence
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Seriousness of the AE
Classified by specific clinical outcome
...but, can any seriousness ranking be generally
accepted?
no effect death
?
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Linkage to DrugBank – Approach 1
1. FDA UNII table provides structure string:
2. NCI Resolver provides InChIKey:
3. DrugBank record with the above InChIKey provides
identifier:
Results:
429 out of 2,264 ingredients are linked, out of which 424 are
valid
“N7U69T4SZR”
Starting with UNII….
2-METHYL-4-(4-METHYL-1-PIPERAZINYL)-10H-THIENO(2,3-B)(1,5)BENZODIAZEPINE
KVWDHTXUZHCGIO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
DB00334
Idea: Using NCI Resolver & InChIKey
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Linkage to DrugBank – Approach 2
“OLANZAPINE”
1. ChEBI preferred name from NCBO Bioportal:
2. ChEBI identifier from NCBO Bioportal:
3. DrugBank record with the above ChEBI identifier provides
identifier:
Results:
718 out of 2,264 ingredients are linked, out of which 707 are
valid
“OLANZAPINE”
7735
DB00334
Idea: Using ChEBI identifier & NCBO Portal
Starting with name….
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Linkage to DrugBank – Approach 3
Starting with all data in the FDA UNII table and DrugBank….
1. Index all FDA UNII table and DrugBank XML attributes
2. Search for linkage points and score similarity:
UNII -> Substance Name DrugBank -> brands -> brand: 0.94
UNII -> Preferred Substance Name DrugBank -> name : 0.91
UNII -> Substance Name DrugBank -> synonyms -> synonym : 0.83
…
3. Prune list of linkage points based on cardinality, coverage, and average score
4. Establish links between FDA UNII table and DrugBank using the linkage points
UNII “OLANZAPINE” DrugBank “Zyprexa” : 1.0
…
Results: 1,179 out of 2,264 ingredients are linked, out of which 1,169 are valid
“N7U69T4SZR”
UNII
“OLANZAPINE”
Preferred Substance Name
“2-METHYL-4….”
Molecular Formula
“ZYPREXA”
synonym
Idea:
Automatic discovery of
linkage points
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Linkage Point Discovery Framework
• A generic framework for unsupervised discovery
of linkage points
Details can be found at:
O. Hassanzadeh et al. “Discovering Linkage Points over Web Data”. To Appear in
PVLDB, Vol 6. Issue 6, August 2013
Editor's Notes
I am very privileged to have been invited to speak at your biomedical data and language processing seminar. I would like to thank Dr. Prasad for inviting me and all those who have helped arrange my visit. The title of my talk is…. I chose to speak on this topic because biomedical data and language processing are critical for this task. Also, Masters student Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Dr. Prasad, and I have been collaborating on research with this focus.
I have three goals for this talk… The first is to describe PDDIs and present a conceptual model that explains why they present a major clinical decision support challenge to clinicians and drug information systems The second is to…. The third is to…. To achieve these goals, I have the divided the talk into three parts This talk will go just a bit over 50 minutes so I would like to encourage anyone who would have to leave early to ask questions as I go through the talk…
The term PDDI is used to make a distinction between two very different situations…. A DDI is… A PDDI is…. Up until recently, there has been little distinction between these two scenarios in the literature, but the research community and drug information systems have agreed that this should be used from here on out…
One of the things about PDDIs that makes them hard to study from an epidemiologic perspective is that there are many reasons why a PDDI might not result in harm….drugs are designed to be safe, random effects like patient non-compliance… Well designed prospective and retrospective studies have found evidence of the role of PDDIs in causing patient harm… Gurwitz et al, in their cohort study of ADEs among older Americans receiving ambulatory care, found that 13.3% of preventable errors leading to an ADE involved the co-prescription of drugs for which a “...well established, clinically important interaction” was known. 2 Nearly 7% (23/338) of the ADEs experienced by residents of two academic NHs over a nine-month period were attributable to PDDIs. 3 Sixteen cohort and case-control studies reported an elevated risk of hospitalization in patients who were exposed to PDDIs. 4
First there are many defenses in place that help reduce risk….. None-the-less, Indeed, health care providers often have inadequate knowledge of what drug interactions can occur, patient specific factors that can increase the risk of harm from an interaction, and how to properly manage an interaction when patient exposure cannot be avoided
A hypothetical illustration of how incomplete PDDI knowledge could lead to a harmful medication error. A clinician considers risperidone for treating an HIV patient taking ritonavir. Only one of two different drug information systems lists the PDDI. How system PDDI knowledge might influence probable clinician actions and patient outcomes.
There is plenty of evidence on how drug information systems disagree about PDDIs Contraindications are generally considered to be cases where two drugs should almost never be prescribed together…yet…
Understanding the potential clinical relevance of a PDDI in a given patient requires multiple types of evidence. 7,20–22 Eric van Roon et al. proposed a core PDDI information model using the definition that clinically-useful PDDI information is that which helps discern if some action should be taken with respect to a PDDI. 23 The model includes four elements shown in Figure 3. Collecting evidence related to each information item on 244 PDDIs enabled them to determine that 12% would require no action by physicians.
In this conceptual model, PDDI evidence is perhaps a very critical element…for the next few slides, I am going to unpack what I mean by PDDI evidence and then I will present a more detailed conceptual model
Explain the drug development process, note mandatory testing for PK interactions and the effect on product labeling, confusion on what to do with predicted interactions, the difficulty of getting primary study data for older drugs, cite FDA guidance, IOM report to the FDA, etc… Cerivistatin and gemfibrozil --- a ddi resulting in serious rhabdomyolysis
Mention Vioxx (rofecoxib, 2004) pain in arthritis) recall – patients with potential heart conditions excluded from pre-market studies. Poor response to post-market evidence of association with heart attach and stroke. Postmarket studies include those done in response to drug-AE signal detection, followups on mechanistic studies, mandated phase IV studies, and studies initiated by interested pharmacoepidemiologists Make sure to emphasize that the scientific literature includes conference abstracts that are almost never indexed in PubMed
Mention DIPS, role of case reports in identifying new DDIs
Mention alert burden and evidence for negative effects of over-alerting. Note your own experience with shut off systems.
Be sure to review the references and give a specific example
Be sure to review the references and give a specific example
Highlight the key points of the video
The data model for the SW are triples consisting of subject, predicate, and object. This model if very general and could be implemented in a number of different ways. The SW uses RDF to encode this model in such a way that the subject, predicates, and objects are all specified by URIs. This means that any part of the triple could be from a different data source than any other part of the triple.
Annotations in the data model are a set of RDF resources that connect some target to a set of resources that are in some way about it.
Highlight links by URIs of the objects, the complementary information
Emphasize the synthesis and expected benefits
Discuss the shortcomings of Structured Product Labels published by FDA
Discuss why we need linkage to external resources This can be using an example use case that relies on existence of links and so LinkedSPLs makes it possible (if not shown already in the discussion of the shortcomings of existing SPLs) Examples from paper: For example, RxNorm provides normalized names for the drug products and Unified Medical Language System mappings from the drug product and its active ingredients to concepts in numerous other vocabularies. DrugBank contains information on the specific biochemical targets that a drug entity may influence, major enzymatic pathways, and potential drug-drug interactions. While information on the latter two items may be present in the SPLs, it is hidden in the unstructured text. Similarly, ChEBI provides a rigorous classification of drug entities using a formal ontology maintained by members of the OBO. Both resources provide links to other important drug taxonomies (such as the ATC system) as well as resources that provide further information on the genes that encode drug targets, metabolism and transport of the drug, and diseases that the drug may help treat.
To make this interesting to the audience, discuss the use of SAPIENTA to automatically identify claims regarding “conclusions” from clinical effectiveness studies
escitalopram-tapentadol – SSRI syndrome escitalopram-metoclopramide – escitalopram a weak inhibitor of CYP2D6 which is important for metoclopramide clearance NDF-RT referred to digoxing as digitalis
Be sure to point out the use of preceding/post/exact text and explain why