Supplementary data collection with case-cohort analysis to address potential confounding in a cohort study of thromboembolism in oral contraceptive initiators matched on claims-based propensity scores

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-305

  Mona, Patricia ^a   Seeger, John D ^a,b   Loughlin, Jeanne ^a   Clifford, C Robin ^a   Mentor, Sherry ^a   Walker, Alexander M ^a,b  

^a Ingenix Inc   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Confounding factors (epidemiology); Epidemiologic methods; Epidemiology; Oral contraceptives; Pharmacoepidemiology; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

DROSPIRENONE PLUS ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESIDUAL CONFOUNDING; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949089705     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1554     Document Type: Article

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