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- Title
Timing Matters: A Machine Learning Method for the Prioritization of Drug–Drug Interactions Through Signal Detection in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System and Their Relationship with Time of Co-exposure.
- Authors
Battini, Vera; Cocco, Marianna; Barbieri, Maria Antonietta; Powell, Greg; Carnovale, Carla; Clementi, Emilio; Bate, Andrew; Sessa, Maurizio
- Abstract
Introduction: Current drug–drug interaction (DDI) detection methods often miss the aspect of temporal plausibility, leading to false-positive disproportionality signals in spontaneous reporting system (SRS) databases. Objective: This study aims to develop a method for detecting and prioritizing temporally plausible disproportionality signals of DDIs in SRS databases by incorporating co-exposure time in disproportionality analysis. Methods: The method was tested in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS). The CRESCENDDI dataset of positive controls served as the primary source of true-positive DDIs. Disproportionality analysis was performed considering the time of co-exposure. Temporal plausibility was assessed using the flex point of cumulative reporting of disproportionality signals. Potential confounders were identified using a machine learning method (i.e. Lasso regression). Results: Disproportionality analysis was conducted on 122 triplets with more than three cases, resulting in the prioritization of 61 disproportionality signals (50.0%) involving 13 adverse events, with 61.5% of these included in the European Medicine Agency's (EMA's) Important Medical Event (IME) list. A total of 27 signals (44.3%) had at least ten cases reporting the triplet of interest, and most of them (n = 19; 70.4%) were temporally plausible. The retrieved confounders were mainly other concomitant drugs. Conclusions: Our method was able to prioritize disproportionality signals with temporal plausibility. This finding suggests a potential for our method in pinpointing signals that are more likely to be furtherly validated.
- Subjects
CONCOMITANT drugs; SIGNAL detection; MACHINE learning; FOOD testing; SIGNALS &; signaling
- Publication
Drug Safety, 2024, Vol 47, Issue 9, p895
- ISSN
0114-5916
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40264-024-01430-8