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Table 2 Number of true positive cases missed by each method and the root cause for missing cases

From: Implementation and comparison of two text mining methods with a standard pharmacovigilance method for signal detection of medication errors

Affected method

Cause

Number of cases

SSA

PT term not part of the 12 listed in Table 1

3

I2E

Context

2

I2E

I2E rule 4 needs adjustment

2

I2E

Flextouch® not part of the query

2

CPR

CPR rule 5 needs adjustment

1

I2E and CPR

CPR rule 2 was not followed

I2E rule 4 needs adjustment

1