Identification of abacavir hypersensitivity reaction in health care claims data

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-296

  Nordstrom, Beth L ^a   Norman, Heather S ^a   Dube, Timothy J ^a   Wilcox, Marsha A ^a   Walker, Alexander M ^a,b  

^a i3 Drug Safety   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral therapy; Claims data; Classification and regression trees; Hypersensitivity reaction; Random forests

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR; ABACAVIR PLUS LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DECISION TREES; DIDEOXYNUCLEOSIDES; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947242938     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1337     Document Type: Article

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