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Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Health Informatics
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1198904
This article is part of the Research Topic Unleashing the Power of Large Data: Models to Improve Individual Health Outcomes View all 5 articles

Promoting Appropriate Medication Use Leveraging Medical Big Data

Provisionally accepted
Linghong Hong Linghong Hong 1Shiwang Huang Shiwang Huang 2Xiaohai Cai Xiaohai Cai 2Zhiming Lin Zhiming Lin 3Yunting Shao Yunting Shao 3Longbiao CHEN Longbiao CHEN 3Min ZHAO Min ZHAO 4*Chenhui Yang Chenhui Yang 2*
  • 1 Department of Drug Clinical Trial Institution, Xiang'an Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
  • 2 Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart Cities, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
  • 3 Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart Cities, School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
  • 4 Big Data Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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    According to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), inappropriate medication has become an important factor affecting the safety of rational medication. In the gray area of medical insurance supervision, such as designated drugstores and designated medical institutions, there are lots of inappropriate medication phenomena about "big prescription for minor ailments". While the traditional Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) are mostly based on established rules to regulate inappropriate prescriptions, which are not suitable for clinical environments that require intelligent review. In this paper, we model the complex relation among patient, disease and drug based on medical big data to promote the appropriate medication use. More specifically, we first construct the medication knowledge graph based on the historical prescription big data of tertiary hospitals and medical text data. Second, based on the medication knowledge graph, we employ Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to group patient population representation as physiological features. For diagnostic features, we employ pre-training word vector BERT to enhance the semantic representation between diagnoses. And in order to reduce adverse drug interactions caused by drug combination, we employ graph convolution network to transform drug interaction information into drug interaction features. Finally, we employ the sequence generation model to learn the complex relationship among patient, disease and drug, and provide an appropriate medication evaluation for prescribing by doctors in small hospitals from two aspects of drug list and medication course of treatment. In this study, we utilize the MIMIC III dataset alongside data from a tertiary hospital in Fujian Province to validate our model. The results show that our method is more effective than other baseline methods in the accuracy of medication regimen prediction of rational medication. In addition, it has achieved high accuracy in the appropriate medication detection of prescription in small hospitals.

    Keywords: Rational use of drugs, Appropriate medication, nlp, knowledge graph, transformer

    Received: 02 Apr 2023; Accepted: 11 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hong, Huang, Cai, Lin, Shao, CHEN, ZHAO and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Min ZHAO, Big Data Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
    Chenhui Yang, Fujian Key Laboratory of Sensing and Computing for Smart Cities, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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