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This is the second part in a series of research articles focused on drugs discussed by IBD patients on crohnsforum.com. The concept of Drug Side Effect Ratio is defined.
The previous article took a look at what drugs IBD patients discuss on crohnsforum. This article examines the instances of the phrase “side effects” near the drug names. I collected Google results by using a site specific search then determined the percentage of mentions of “side effect” near the drug name.
Here’s an example, Google search: [“Remicade” “side effects” site:crohnsforum.com]. There were 6,250 results. From the previous article the total mentions of Remicade is 22,100. Dividing side effects results by total results we get 0.28. So the result is that 28% of the mentions of “Remicade” occur close to the phrase “side effects”. I’ll call this metric the Drug Side Effect Ratio. The higher the ratio the more we expect the discussions in the forum are focused on side effects.
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The full article can be found here: http://bit.ly/14mR9gchttp://bit.ly/14mR9gc
This is the second part in a series of research articles focused on drugs discussed by IBD patients on crohnsforum.com. The concept of Drug Side Effect Ratio is defined.
The previous article took a look at what drugs IBD patients discuss on crohnsforum. This article examines the instances of the phrase “side effects” near the drug names. I collected Google results by using a site specific search then determined the percentage of mentions of “side effect” near the drug name.
Here’s an example, Google search: [“Remicade” “side effects” site:crohnsforum.com]. There were 6,250 results. From the previous article the total mentions of Remicade is 22,100. Dividing side effects results by total results we get 0.28. So the result is that 28% of the mentions of “Remicade” occur close to the phrase “side effects”. I’ll call this metric the Drug Side Effect Ratio. The higher the ratio the more we expect the discussions in the forum are focused on side effects.
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The full article can be found here: http://bit.ly/14mR9gchttp://bit.ly/14mR9gc