Incidence rates of narcolepsy diagnoses in Taiwan, Canada, and Europe: The use of statistical simulation to evaluate methods for the rapid assessment of potential safety issues on a population level in the SOMNIA study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Dodd, Caitlin N ^a,b   De Ridder, Maria ^a   Huang, Wan Ting ^c   Weibel, Daniel ^a   Giner Soriano, Maria ^d,e   Perez Vilar, Silvia ^a,f   Diez Domingo, Javier ^f   Svenson, Lawrence W ^g   Mahmud, Salahddin M ^h   Carleton, Bruce ⁱ   Naus, Monika ⁱ   Kwong, Jeffrey C ^j,k,l,m,n   Murray, Brian J ^o   Arnheim Dahlstrom, Lisen ^p   Pedersen, Lars ^q   Morros, Rosa ^d,e   Puertas, Francisco Javier ^r,s   Black, Steven ^t   Sturkenboom, Miriam ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d Research Institute University Primary Care IDIAP Jordi Gol   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f Fundacion para el Fomento de la Investigacion Sanitaria y Biomedica de la Comunitat Valenciana   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^k PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^o SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^p KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^q AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^r Hospital La Ribera   (Spain)

^s UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^t CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NARCOLEPSY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAIWAN; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NARCOLEPSY; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; TAIWAN; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85055076271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204799     Document Type: Article

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