Social media and internet search data to inform drug utilization : a systematic scoping review

Article Article scientifique Revue de la littérature Social media and internet search data to inform drug utilization : a systematic scoping review eng 2023-03-20 2023-03-20 author Keller Roman author Spanu Alessandra author Puhan Milo Alan 0000-0003-4721-1879 author Flahault Antoine 815316 Institut de santé globale (COSPR) author Lovis Christian 0000-0002-2681-8076 29016 Département de radiologie et informatique médicale (RADIO) author Mütsch Margot author Beau Raphaëlle 835862 Services communs de GSI (GSIA) 1074961 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1074961 37021064 2673-253X PMC10067924 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1074961/full Introduction: Drug utilization is currently assessed through traditional data sources such as big electronic medical records (EMRs) databases, surveys, and medication sales. Social media and internet data have been reported to provide more accessible and more timely access to medications' utilization. Objective: This review aims at providing evidence comparing web data on drug utilization to other sources before the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Scopus until November 25th, 2019, using a predefined search strategy. Two independent reviewers conducted screening and data extraction. Results: Of 6,563 (64%) deduplicated publications retrieved, 14 (0.2%) were included. All studies showed positive associations between drug utilization information from web and comparison data using very different methods. A total of nine (64%) studies found positive linear correlations in drug utilization between web and comparison data. Five studies reported association using other methods: One study reported similar drug popularity rankings using both data sources. Two studies developed prediction models for future drug consumption, including both web and comparison data, and two studies conducted ecological analyses but did not quantitatively compare data sources. According to the STROBE, RECORD, and RECORD-PE checklists, overall reporting quality was mediocre. Many items were left blank as they were out of scope for the type of study investigated. Conclusion: Our results demonstrate the potential of web data for assessing drug utilization, although the field is still in a nascent period of investigation. Ultimately, social media and internet search data could be used to get a quick preliminary quantification of drug use in real time. Additional studies on the topic should use more standardized methodologies on different sets of drugs in order to confirm these findings. In addition, currently available checklists for study quality of reporting would need to be adapted to these new sources of scientific information. Google trends Drug utilization Internet search Social media Surveillance Systematic scoping review User-generated data Dewey 613 Dewey 616.0757 66 Institut de santé globale 22A1 62 Département de radiologie et informatique médicale 227 false 907 Groupe Flahault Antoine 945 344 Interfaces Homme-machine en milieu clinique 610 Frontiers in digital health 5 9e78361d-addf-45e5-a97d-0a423ee1dcfe Article (Published version) Public Article-scientifique-from-unpaywall.pdf 1502991 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 7df7fa7bbe807daeb8e4fb5457acc896e05fd75a405346d7ad86cd8962cb09dd 51520ceb-6c49-4c41-9c25-daa0ea6024ce Supplemental data Public Data_Sheet_1-2.docx 56914 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 6094110b20d2215a5a5e85b31036159ce91e7ec8c06c526e5855cf5d8a4ebee1 3cd43969-22d1-4119-821e-f5e92ed8fcf4 Supplemental data Public Data_Sheet_2-1.docx 24633 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document ba5e526fdec57bdaaf22d5eb9e0ade85fab9ecc6f96cfcd7e583b269348b555b 3ec41af5-8937-497a-b10f-a4870fdf0e96 Supplemental data Public Data_Sheet_3-1.docx 55821 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 57e36a264138f32bed6bb503ace71a4f4b565d2bc4de70e571f88bebe0534955 c838ec1f-51d7-46cb-8104-35e94dca8fc8 Supplemental data Public Data_Sheet_4.pdf 299605 application/pdf fa6d8c311bfe7b0328ecbeceb5764ceb9bbb23b9682c902c2e6a43ac8b4c0d56 cf5eef63-c9cd-4b83-8425-397b751128dc Supplemental data Public Data_Sheet_5.docx 116523 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 0cffe732e34176b8805af3b44260ff71a8210651de4201b992df79e0e58a1403 openAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires / Institut de santé globale Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale

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