FAIRsharing record for: Ontology of Adverse Events

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Ontology of Adverse Events (OAE) is a community-driven ontology that is developed to standardize and integrate data on biomedical adverse events (e.g., vaccine and drug adverse events) and support computer-assisted reasoning. As a result of a medical intervention, events may occur which lie outside the intended consequences of the intervention. Some of these events are adverse events, in the sense that they are pathological bodily processes. For many such adverse events it is unclear whether they are causal consequences of the medical intervention which preceded them, since adverse events may also occur due to other reasons (for example a natural viral infection). OAE was created to represent the whole process from initial medical intervention to subsequent outcomes.