Updates are available Correction dated 2021-01-15

Article History

Accepted: 8 September 2020

First Online: 1 October 2020

Change Date: 15 January 2021

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: The article A Comparative View of Reported Adverse Effects of Statins in Social Media.

Decalarations

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: This work was supported by NIH National Library of Medicine under grant number NIH NLM 1R01. NIH National Library of Medicine funded this research but were not involved in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. SG was funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), PDF-2014-07-041, for this research project. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, NIHR, or Department of Health.

: None declared.

: All data used in this study were collected according to the Twitter terms of use and were publicly available at the time of collection and analysis. We have an institutional review board certificate of exemption from the University of Pennsylvania.

: Not applicable.

: Not applicable.

: The dataset generated and analysed during the current study is available in the Mendeley Data repository and contains the Tweet ID, User ID and annotated span and their normalized MedDRA code. We will provide a script for the researcher to hydrate the tweets to obtain the tweet text (). The data is shared in this manner to adhere to Twitter’s Terms of Service.

: Not applicable.

: All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Data collection and analysis were led by SG, KS and KO. The first draft of the manuscript was written by SG and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.