Multivariable confounding adjustment in distributed data networks without sharing of patient-level data

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1171-1177

  Toh, Sengwee ^a   Reichman, Marsha E ^b   Houstoun, Monika ^b   Ding, Xiao ^b   Fireman, Bruce H ^c   Gravel, Eric ^d   Levenson, Mark ^b   Li, Lingling ^a   Moyneur, Erick ^d   Shoaibi, Azadeh ^b   Zornberg, Gwen ^b   Hennessy, Sean ^e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Confounding; Disease risk scores; Distributed data network; Mini Sentinel; Pharmacoepidemiology; Propensity scores

Indexed keywords

ALISKIREN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE RISK SCORE; DISTRIBUTED DATA NETWORK; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG TARGETING; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; META ANALYSIS; MINI SENTINEL PROGRAM; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE; CONFOUNDING; DISEASE RISK SCORES; DISTRIBUTED DATA NETWORK; MINI-SENTINEL; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPENSITY SCORES;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AMIDES; ANGIOEDEMA; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, FACTUAL; FUMARATES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PROPENSITY SCORE;

EID: 84886287935     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3483     Document Type: Article

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