title: Summarizing drug information in Medline citations.
abstract: Adverse drug events and drug-drug interactions are a major concern in patient care. Although databases exist to provide information about drugs, they are not always up-to-date and complete (particularly regarding pharmacogenetics). We propose a methodology based on automatic summarization to identify drug information in Medline citations and present results to the user in a convenient form. We evaluate the method on a selection of citations discussing ten drugs ranging from the proton pump inhibitor lansoprazole to the vasoconstrictor sumatriptan. We suggest that automatic summarization can provide a valuable adjunct to curated drug databases in supporting quality patient care.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiszman
authors.forename: Thomas C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Rindflesch
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kilicoglu
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D004347:Drug Interactions; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017432:Unified Medical Language System