#ChronicPain: Automatic establishment of a chronic pain cohort from social media using machine learning for studying opioid-alternative therapies

2022-08-22 pain medicine Title + abstract only

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Due to the high economic and public health burden of chronic pain, and the risk of public health consequences of opioid-based treatments, there is a need to identify effective alternative therapies. The evidence basis for many alternative therapies is weak or nonexistent. Social media presents a unique opportunity to gather large-scale knowledge about such therapies self-reported by sufferers themselves. We attempted to (i) verify the presence of largescale chronic pain-related chatter on Twitte...