Drug Recommendation toward Safe Polypharmacy

03/08/2018
by   Wen-Hao Chiang, et al.
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Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) induced from high-order drug-drug interactions (DDIs) due to polypharmacy represent a significant public health problem. In this paper, we formally formulate the to-avoid and safe (with respect to ADRs) drug recommendation problems when multiple drugs have been taken simultaneously. We develop a joint model with a recommendation component and an ADR label prediction component to recommend for a prescription a set of to-avoid drugs that will induce ADRs if taken together with the prescription. We also develop real drug-drug interaction datasets and corresponding evaluation protocols. Our experimental results on real datasets demonstrate the strong performance of the joint model compared to other baseline methods.

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