Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is an international forum for the communication and evaluation of data, methods and opinion in the combined disciplines of pharmacology and epidemiology. We embrace scientific, medical, statistical, legal and economic aspects of pharmacoepidemiology and post-marketing surveillance of drug safety. The journal publishes papers covering pharmacovigilance, post-marketing surveillance, pharmaeconomics, patient safety, comparative effectiveness of different pharmaceuticals and medical devices, risk management, and pharmacoepidemiological methods.

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The cover image is based on the article The Effect of Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors on Hemoglobin A1c Variability and Acute Kidney Injury: A Causal Mediation Analysis by Tiansheng Wang et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.5876.
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Advancing Health Equity in Europe: Explore, Tailor, Implement, and Evaluate (ETIE)—A Framework of Diversity and Fairness in Pharmacoepidemiologic Research

Enriqueta Vallejo-Yagüe, Sieta T. de Vries, Daniel La Parra-Casado, Helga Gardarsdottir, Maria Luisa Faquetti, Irene van Valkengoed, Elodie Aubrun, Antonios Douros, Sandra Guedes, Adrian Martinez-De La Torre, Jakob Wested, Taichi Ochi, Anne Marie Schumacher Dimech, Carole Clair, Isha Mehta, Fidelia Ida, Montse Soriano Gabarró, Oleksii Korzh, María Martínez-González, Ariadna Maso, Diana Clamote Rodrigues, Jackie R. Ndem-Galbert, Marta Korjagina, Swarnali Goswami, Daniela C. Moga, Andrea Fleisch Marcus, Hedvig Nordeng, 
  •  20 July 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

How COVID-19 Treatment in Pregnancy Reflects Healthcare Utilization During a Pandemic: A Two-Stage Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Combining Case-Based Registries

Emeline Maisonneuve, Odette De Bruin, Guillaume Favre, Erin Oakley, Jenny Yeon Hee Kim, Fouzia Farooq, Nouf Al-Fadel, Abdulaali Almutairi, Maria del Mar Gil, Irene Fernandez Buhigas, Silvia Visentin, Erich Cosmi, Fernanda Surita, Renato T. Souza, José G. Cecatti, Maria Laura Costa, Jose Sanin-Blair, Jorge E. Tolosa, Eran Hadar, Anna Goncé, Christophe Poncelet, Fabienne Forestier, Thibaud Quibel, Begoña Martinez de Tejada, Béatrice Eggel-Hort, Romina Capoccia Brugger, Daniel Surbek, Luigi Raio, Anda-Petronela Radan, Monya Todesco-Bernasconi, Cécile Monod, Leonard Schäffer, Anett Harnadi, Sayed Hamid Mousavi, Diogo Ayres-de-Campos, Léo Pomar, Joanna Sichitiu, Laurent J. Salomon, Yves Ville, Andrea Papadia, Marie-Claude Rossier, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Natalya Goncalves Pereira, Adolfo Etchegaray, Albaro Jose Nieto-Calvache, Michael Geary, Javiera Fuenzalida, Claudia Grawe, Albert I. Ko, Silke Johann, Marco De Santis, Cora Alexandra Voekt, Najeh Hcini, Karin Nielsen-Saines, Charles Garabedian, Loïc Sentilhes, Otto H. May Feuerschuette, Grit Vetter, Manggala Pasca Wardhana, Irida Dajti, Kitty W. M. Bloemenkamp, Satu J. Siiskonen, Emily R. Smith, David Baud, Alice Panchaud, Miriam C. J. M. Sturkenboom, 
  •  16 July 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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High‐Dimensional Disease Risk Score for Dealing With Residual Confounding Bias in Estimating Treatment Effects With a Survival Outcome

Md. Belal Hossain, Hubert Wong, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Victoria J. Cook, James C. Johnston, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, 
  •  6 July 2025
REVIEW
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Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi‐Database Distributed Data Networks

Rachelle Haber, Michael Webster-Clark, Nicole Pratt, Nicola Barclay, Xue Li, Judith C. Maro, Robert W. Platt, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Kristian B. Filion, 
  •  6 July 2025
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions and Drug Shortages on Drug Utilization: A Scoping Review

Araniy Santhireswaran, Shanzeh Chaudhry, Martin Ho, Kaitlin Fuller, Etienne Gaudette, Lisa Burry, Mina Tadrous, 
  •  2 July 2025
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Use of proportional reporting ratios (PRRs) for signal generation from spontaneous adverse drug reaction reports

S. J. W. Evans, P. C. Waller, S. Davis, 
  •  483-486
  •  10 December 2001

The new Swedish Prescribed Drug Register—Opportunities for pharmacoepidemiological research and experience from the first six months†

Björn Wettermark M.Sc.Pharm, PhD, Niklas Hammar, C. MichaelFored MD, PhD, Andrejs Leimanis, Petra Otterblad Olausson PhD, Ulf Bergman MD, professor, Ingemar Persson MD, professor, Anders Sundström MD, PhD, Barbro Westerholm MD, professor, Måns Rosén MD, professor, 
  •  726-735
  •  9 August 2006

The reporting odds ratio and its advantages over the proportional reporting ratio

Kenneth J. Rothman, Stephan Lanes, Susan T. Sacks, 
  •  519-523
  •  11 August 2004

A comparison of measures of disproportionality for signal detection in spontaneous reporting systems for adverse drug reactions

Eugéne P. van Puijenbroek, Andrew Bate, Hubert G. M. Leufkens, Marie Lindquist, Roland Orre, Antoine C. G. Egberts, 
  •  3-10
  •  6 February 2002

Quantitative signal detection using spontaneous ADR reporting

A. Bate MA PhD, S. J. W. Evans BA MSc, 
  •  427-436
  •  8 April 2009
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