Empirical Performance of a New User Cohort Method: Lessons for Developing a Risk Identification and Analysis System
- 29 October 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drug Safety
- Vol. 36 (S1) , 59-72
Abstract
Observational healthcare data offer the potential to enable identification of risks of medical products, but appropriate methodology has not yet been defined. The new user cohort method, which compares the post-exposure rate among the target drug to a referent comparator group, is the prevailing approach for many pharmacoepidemiology evaluations and has been proposed as a promising approach for risk identification but its performance in this context has not been fully assessed.Keywords
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