A fuzzy derivative approach to classification of outcomes from the Adverse Drug Reaction Advisory Committee database

The Australian Adverse Drug Reaction Advisory Committee (ADRAC) database has been collected and maintained by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. In this paper we study a part of this database (Card2) which contains records haaving just reactions from the Cardiovascular group. Drug-reaction relationships are presented by a vector of degrees which shows the degree of association of a drug with each class of reactions. In this work we examine these relationships in the classification of reaction outcomes. A modified version of the fuzzy derivative method is used for classification.