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    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety: Volume 24, Issue 9

    897-1007
    September 2015
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Review

Open Access

Data management and data analysis techniques in pharmacoepidemiological studies using a pre-planned multi-database approach: a systematic literature review

Marloes T. Bazelier,  Irene Eriksson,  Frank de Vries,  Marjanka K. Schmidt,  Jani Raitanen,  Jari Haukka,  Jakob Starup-Linde,  Marie L. De Bruin,  Morten Andersen, 
  • Pages: 897-905
  • First Published: 14 July 2015

Original Reports

Open Access

Association between drug-specific indicators of prescribing quality and quality of drug treatment: a validation study

Susanna M. Wallerstedt,  Björn Belfrage,  Johan Fastbom, 
  • Pages: 906-914
  • First Published: 06 July 2015

Patterns of acetaminophen medication use associated with exceeding the recommended maximum daily dose

Saul Shiffman,  Jeffrey M. Rohay,  Deena Battista,  Judith P. Kelly,  Mary K. Malone,  Rachel B. Weinstein,  David W. Kaufman, 
  • Pages: 915-921
  • First Published: 07 July 2015

Association rule mining in the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

Lai Wei,  John Scott, 
  • Pages: 922-933
  • First Published: 04 June 2015

Methodological considerations in assessing the effectiveness of antidepressant medication continuation during pregnancy using administrative data†

Sonja A. Swanson,  Sonia Hernandez-Diaz,  Kristin Palmsten,  Helen Mogun,  Mark Olfson,  Krista F. Huybrechts, 
  • Pages: 934-942
  • First Published: 04 June 2015

Diagnostic accuracy of algorithms to identify hepatitis C status, AIDS status, alcohol consumption and illicit drug use among patients living with HIV in an administrative healthcare database†

Madeleine Durand,  Yishu Wang,  François Venne,  Jacques Lelorier,  Cécile L. Tremblay,  Michal Abrahamowicz, 
  • Pages: 943-950
  • First Published: 24 June 2015

Matching on the disease risk score in comparative effectiveness research of new treatments

Richard Wyss,  Alan R. Ellis,  M. Alan Brookhart,  Michele Jonsson Funk,  Cynthia J. Girman,  Ross J. Simpson Jr,  Til Stürmer, 
  • Pages: 951-961
  • First Published: 25 June 2015

Exploration of statistical shrinkage parameters of disproportionality methods in spontaneous reporting system of China

Jing Wang,  Xiao-Fei Ye,  Xiao-Jing Guo,  Tian-Tian Zhu,  Na Qi,  Yong-Fang Hou,  Tian-Yi Zhang,  Wen-Tao Shi,  Xin Wei,  Yu-Zhou Liu,  Gui-Zhi Wu,  Jia He, 
  • Pages: 962-970
  • First Published: 11 June 2015

Aggregate analysis of regulatory authority assessors' comments to improve the quality of periodic safety update reports

Sandra Jullian,  Lukasz Jaskiewicz,  Hans-Jürgen Pfannkuche,  Jeremy Parker,  Isabelle Lalande-Luesink,  David J. Lewis,  Philippe Close, 
  • Pages: 971-979
  • First Published: 14 July 2015

Is the Quebec provincial administrative database a valid source for research on chronic non-cancer pain?†

Anaïs Lacasse,  Mark A. Ware,  Marc Dorais,  Hélène Lanctôt,  Manon Choinière, 
  • Pages: 980-990
  • First Published: 24 June 2015

Use of a multi-state model in a claims database: illustration with methadone

Quentin Boucherie,  Vanessa Pauly,  Elisabeth Frauger,  Xavier Thirion,  Vincent Pradel,  Joëlle Micallef, 
  • Pages: 991-998
  • First Published: 14 July 2015

Brief Reports

Use of demographic and pharmacy data to identify patients included within both the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and The Health Improvement Network (THIN)

Dean M. Carbonari,  M. Elle Saine,  Craig W. Newcomb,  Betina Blak,  Jason A. Roy,  Kevin Haynes,  Jennifer Wood,  Arlene M. Gallagher,  Harshvinder Bhullar,  Serena Cardillo,  Sean Hennessy,  Brian L. Strom,  Vincent Lo Re III, 
  • Pages: 999-1003
  • First Published: 27 July 2015

On the role of marginal confounder prevalence – implications for the high-dimensional propensity score algorithm

Tibor Schuster,  Menglan Pang,  Robert W. Platt, 
  • Pages: 1004-1007
  • First Published: 10 April 2015