DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS OF DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS

摘要

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for discovering and analyzing drug related side effects, which are also referred to herein as “off-target responses”. Side effects can be positive/beneficial side effects or negative/undesirable side effects. Further, the positive side effects can be utilize to repurpose a drug while undesirable side effects can be eliminated to make the drug(s) safer. Disclosed methods can utilize any one or more of a variety of data sources and data collection techniques to acquire data that can be utilized to identify side effects related to a particular drug and to determine that causal links between the drug, the patients, and the side effects.