Adverse drug event and medication extraction in electronic health records via a cascading architecture with different sequence labeling models and word embeddings

Hong-Jie Dai, Chu-Hsien Su, Chi-Shin Wu

Abstract: An adverse drug event (ADE) refers to an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug including harm caused by drugs or from the usage of drugs. Extracting ADEs from clinical records can help physicians associate adverse events to targeted drugs.