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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133706
论文题名:
Can Twitter Be a Source of Information on Allergy? Correlation of Pollen Counts with Tweets Reporting Symptoms of Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis and Names of Antihistamine Drugs
作者: Francesco Gesualdo; Giovanni Stilo; Angelo D’Ambrosio; Emanuela Carloni; Elisabetta Pandolfi; Paola Velardi; Alessandro Fiocchi; Alberto E. Tozzi
刊名: PLOS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
出版年: 2015
发表日期: 2015-7-21
卷: 10, 期:7
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Twitter ; Pollen ; Allergies ; Latitude ; Allergic diseases ; Drug information ; Longitude ; Social networks
英文摘要: Pollen forecasts are in use everywhere to inform therapeutic decisions for patients with allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC). We exploited data derived from Twitter in order to identify tweets reporting a combination of symptoms consistent with a case definition of ARC and those reporting the name of an antihistamine drug. In order to increase the sensitivity of the system, we applied an algorithm aimed at automatically identifying jargon expressions related to medical terms. We compared weekly Twitter trends with National Allergy Bureau weekly pollen counts derived from US stations, and found a high correlation of the sum of the total pollen counts from each stations with tweets reporting ARC symptoms (Pearson’s correlation coefficient: 0.95) and with tweets reporting antihistamine drug names (Pearson’s correlation coefficient: 0.93). Longitude and latitude of the pollen stations affected the strength of the correlation. Twitter and other social networks may play a role in allergic disease surveillance and in signaling drug consumptions trends.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/21883
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作者单位: Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Department of Informatics, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Department of Informatics, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy;Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy;Multifactorial Disease and Complex Phenotype Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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Francesco Gesualdo,Giovanni Stilo,Angelo D’Ambrosio,et al. Can Twitter Be a Source of Information on Allergy? Correlation of Pollen Counts with Tweets Reporting Symptoms of Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis and Names of Antihistamine Drugs[J]. PLOS ONE,2015-01-01,10(7)
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