Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Papers
(The median citation count of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Exposure to Valsartan Products Containing Nitrosamine Impurities in the United States, Canada, and Denmark40
Correction to “Effect of tramadol and DOACs with special attention to dabigatran on concomitant use, on the risk of mayor bleeding using BIFAP database in Spain”37
Data Resource Profile: The Danish National Hospital Medicine Register32
Management of epilepsy in Lebanon: Medication reviews and drug‐related problems31
Antibiotics and Drug Reaction With Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms (DRESS) Syndrome: Analysis of Brazilian Pharmacovigilance Registries30
Mixed Impact of Direct Healthcare Professional Communications When Considering Proximal Outcomes and the Targeted Population: A Systematic Review28
Validation of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy Coding in US Claims Data27
Validation of diagnosis codes for chorioamnionitis in medical encounter data, 2013–201827
External validity in distributed data networks26
Hepatitis B vaccine and risk of acute myocardial infarction among individuals with diabetes mellitus26
Optimizing therapeutic decision‐making for off‐label medicines use: A scoping review and consensus recommendations for improving practice and research+24
Comparison of drug prescribing before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐national European study23
Quantitative Benefit–Risk Assessment of Vaccination Against COVID‐19: A Systematic Review23
Letter to the Editor23
International trends in prescription opioid sales among developed and developing economies, and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic: A cross‐sectional analysis of 66 countries22
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Predicting obesity and smoking using medication data: A machine‐learning approach22
Uncommon side effects of common drugs in patients with familial dysautonomia19
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Trends in the Dispensing of Oral Anti‐Cancer Medications Across Australia Over 10 Years18
Use of gastrointestinal prokinetics and the risk of parkinsonism: A population‐based case‐crossover study18
Performance characteristics of code‐based algorithms to identify urinary tract infections in large United States administrative claims databases18
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Prenatal and Early‐Life Anti‐Infectives and Obesity at Age 7 Years17
Comment on: Exploring the impact of design criteria for reference sets on performance evaluation of signal detection algorithms: The case of drug–drug interactions17
Valproate utilisation trends among women of childbearing potential in Ireland between 2014 and 2019: A drug utilisation study using interrupted time series17
Metadata for Data dIscoverability aNd Study rEplicability in obseRVAtional Studies (MINERVA): Development and Pilot of a Metadata List and Catalogue in Europe16
Validity of ICD‐10‐based algorithms to identify patients with influenza in inpatient and outpatient settings16
Pharmacological and epidemiological considerations while constructing treatment episodes using observational data: A simulation study15
A comparison of confounder selection and adjustment methods for estimating causal effects using large healthcare databases15
Comorbidity influence in observational studies: Why ignore the real world?15
Comparing survival in trial‐ versus routine‐care advanced urothelial cancer patients on immune checkpoint blockade15
Advancing Research Transparency and Reproducibility in Pharmacoepidemiology15
Validation of a Major and Clinically Relevant Nonmajor Bleeding Phenotyping Algorithm on Electronic Health Records14
Use of Potentially Nephrotoxic Drugs in Type 2 Diabetes Patients on SGLT2i: A Trajectories Analysis14
Core concepts in pharmacoepidemiology: Violations of the positivity assumption in the causal analysis of observational data: Consequences and statistical approaches13
Hazard Ratios and Alternative Effect Measures: An Applied Illustration13
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The European Drug–Drug Interaction (EuroDDI) Study Protocol: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Drug–Drug Interaction Prevalence in the Older Community‐Dwelling Population13
Validity of claims‐based algorithms to identify neurodevelopmental disorders in children13
Validation of new medication use algorithms as proxies for worsening disease activity in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis13
An Emulated Target Trial Case Study of Real‐World Overall Survival With Second‐Line Maintenance Niraparib Versus Active Surveillance in Patients With Recurrent Ovarian Cancer13
Letter to the Editor re Davis et al., 2023: BELpREG, the first of its kind real‐world data source on medication use in pregnancy in Belgium12
Classification and visualization of longitudinal patterns of medication dose: An application to interferon‐beta‐1a and amitriptyline in patients with multiple sclerosis12
Federated analyses of multiple data sources in drug safety studies12
Validation of alopecia coding in US claims data among women of childbearing age12
The impact of hydrocodone rescheduling on utilization, abuse, misuse, and overdose deaths12
Probabilistic precision calculations for the planning of studies assessing negative binomial rates12
Pre‐ and post‐stroke oral antithrombotics and mortality in patients with ischaemic stroke12
An individual segmented trajectory approach for identifying opioid use patterns using longitudinal dispensing data12
Impact of Lookback Duration on the Performance of a Claims‐Based Frailty Proxy in Women With Stage I–III Breast Cancer11
Development and validation of an electronic health records‐based opioid use disorder algorithm by expert clinical adjudication among patients with prescribed opioids11
Hypertension medication from guidelines to practice: A cohort study in western Iran11
Impact of Antibiotic Shortages on Antibiotic Utilisation in the Community11
Effectiveness and use of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction point of care testing in a large‐scale COVID‐19 surveillance system10
Using pooled electronic health records data to conduct pharmacoepidemiology safety studies: Challenges and lessons learned10
Post‐Market Evidence for Cancer Medicines in Regulatory and Clinical Decision‐Making: A Scoping Review10
Characterization of SARSCoV‐2 Diagnostic Tests and Liver Function Tests Among Patients With COVID‐19 Diagnosed in Outpatient Settings Using Administrative Healthcare 10
Use of Omalizumab for Pediatric Asthma After US Food and Drug Administration Expanded Indications10
Drug interactions in hospital prescriptions in Denmark: Prevalence and associations with adverse outcomes10
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Adherence to prescription proton pump inhibitor therapy amongst individuals diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus10
Association between pre‐admission anticoagulation and in‐hospital death, venous thromboembolism, and major bleeding among hospitalized COVID‐19 patients in Japan10
Studying the Impact of European Union Regulatory Interventions for Minimising Risks From Medicines: Lessons Learnt and Recommendations10
Validation of an algorithm to identify fractures among patients within the Veterans Health Administration10
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Consistency between the National Patient Register and the Swedish Cancer Register10
Assessing medical product safety during pregnancy using parameterizable tools in the sentinel distributed database10
Core concepts in pharmacoepidemiology: Key biases arising in pharmacoepidemiologic studies9
The risk of miscarriage after COVID‐19 vaccination before and during pregnancy9
Prevalence of Polypharmacy in Elderly Population Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis9
A drug utilization study of thiocolchicoside‐containing medicinal products for systemic use in France and Italy: A cross‐sectional electronic medical records database study9
Perinatal pharmacoepidemiology: How often are key methodological elements reported in publications?9
Valproic Acid‐Induced Congenital Disorders, an Analysis in EudraVigilance and a Literature Review of Valproic Acid Utilization During Pregnancy9
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ISPE20 Author Index9
Risk of clinically relevant hyperglycemia with metoprolol compared to carvedilol in older adults with heart failure and diabetes9
RE: Gout and sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors9
Validation of diagnostic coding for bronchiectasis in an electronic health record system in Hong Kong9
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Trends in clomiphene citrate and gonadotropins use in women with infertility between 2010 and 2017: A population‐based study in France9
Utilization of drugs with reports on potential efficacy or harm on COVID‐19 before, during, and after the first pandemic wave9
Dipeptidyl Peptidase‐4 Inhibitors and Risk of Heart Failure in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and End‐Stage Renal Disease Requiring Dialysis9
Percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion and risk of stroke, hospitalized bleeding and death in Medicare beneficiaries8
Descriptive analysis on disproportionate medication errors and associated patient characteristics in the Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System8
Detecting and Dating Early Non‐live Pregnancy Outcomes: Generation of a Novel Pregnancy Algorithm From Norwegian Linked Health Registries8
Core concepts in pharmacoepidemiology: Measures of drug utilization based on individual‐level drug dispensing data8
Adverse drug reaction signal detection methods in spontaneous reporting system: A systematic review8
Sex‐specific incidence of hepatitis B virus flares among Bcr‐Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor users in Taiwan8
Validation Assessment of Privacy‐Preserving Synthetic Electronic Health Record Data: Comparison of Original Versus Synthetic Data on Real‐World COVID‐19 Vaccine Effectiveness8
Background rates of five thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndromes of special interest for COVID‐19 vaccine safety surveillance: Incidence between 2017 and 2019 and patient profiles from 38
Use of antidepressants and risk of repeat self‐harm in older adults 75+ with nonfatal self‐harm: A 1‐year prospective national study7
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Signal detection of COVID‐19 vaccines adverse events using spontaneous reports from South Korea7
A framework for the use of biological medicines in the free state province, South Africa7
A meta‐analysis assessing the prevalence of drug–drug interactions among hospitalized patients7
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Development and Validation of Claims‐Based Algorithms for Conjunctivitis and Keratitis7
A methodology to assess the population size and estimate the needed resources for new licensed medications by combining clinical and administrative databases: The example of glycated haemoglobin in ty7
ABSTRACTS of the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 24–28 August 20247
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Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Principled Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Pharmacoepidemiology and Healthcare Research7
Rescheduling gabapentinoids had negligible effects on prescribing behaviour by general practitioners in England7
Prescribing of valproate and oral antiepileptics for women of childbearing age and during pregnancy in Germany between 2010 and 20207
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The Effect of Isoniazid for Tuberculosis Prevention on Pregnancy Risk Among Women Living With HIV on Antiretroviral Treatment and Progestin‐Based Hormonal Contraception6
Using administrative healthcare database records to study trends in prescribed medication dispensed during pregnancy in Belgium from 2003 to 20176
Comparison of record linkage software for deduplicating patient identities in California's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program6
The Effects of Removing the Requirement for Prior Reimbursement Approval on Anticoagulant Use in Ireland: A Cross‐Sectional Study6
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Use of Causal Framework to Evaluate Effect of Abuse Deterrent Properties of Extended‐Release Oxycodone on Tampering in a Real‐World Settings6
To wait or not to wait: Weighing the pros and cons of early identification of safety concerns for medications used in pregnancy6
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Opioid Use After Hip Fracture and Subsequent Fracture Outcomes: A Self‐Controlled Case Series Design6
Core Concepts: Self‐Controlled Designs in Pharmacoepidemiology6
Opioid tapering and mental health crisis in older adults6
Patterns of filled prescriptions and the association with risk of drug‐induced death. A population‐based nested case‐control register study6
SUPPLEMENTARY ABSTRACTS of ICPE 2021, the 37th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management (ICPE), 23–25 August, 2021 (virtual)6
INSIGHT: A Tool for Fit‐for‐Purpose Evaluation and Quality Assessment of Standardized Observational Data Sources for Real World Evidence on Medicine and Vaccine Safety6
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Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions in Hospitalized Children: A Pilot Validation Study6
Response to letter to the editor regarding “Development and validation of a predictive model algorithm to identify anaphylaxis in adults with type 2 diabetes in U.S. administrative claims d6
Evaluation of Medication Adherence Among Prevalent Users in Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, and Diabetes Using Health Insurance Claims: A Population‐Based Cohort Study in Japan6
Accuracy of identifying diagnosis of moderate to severe chronic kidney disease in administrative claims data6
Accuracy and validity of reported opioid prescription days' supply6
A review of the sampling methodology used in studies evaluating the effectiveness of risk minimisation measures in Europe6
Correction to “A data‐informed approach using individualised dispensing patterns to estimate medicine exposure periods and dose from pharmaceutical claims data”6
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Moxifloxacin monotherapy for treatment of uncomplicated pelvic inflammatory disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis with trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials5
Association of Benzodiazepine Prescription With Short‐Term Prognosis in Elderly Patients Attended in Emergency Department: Results From the EDEN PROJECT5
Sampling in the case‐time‐control design among drug users when outcome prevents further treatment5
The Awareness of and Adherence to the Pregnancy Prevention Program for Oral Retinoids: A Questionnaire Survey in Denmark5
Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Quantitative Bias Analysis5
Biases associated with epidermal necrolysis reporting in pharmacovigilance: An exploratory analysis using World Health Organization VigiBase5
Mobile apps for quick adverse drug reaction report: A scoping review5
ABSTRACTS of the virtual 2nd Annual African Regional Interest Group Meeting (AfRIG), 11–13 July, 20225
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Tell me what you want, what you really really want: Estimands in observational pharmacoepidemiologic comparative effectiveness and safety studies5
Use patterns of systemic immunomodulators in the United States before and after dupilumab approval in adults with atopic dermatitis5
The use of uncertain exposure—A method to define switching and add‐on in pharmacoepidemiology5
Real world prescription of beta‐blockers in patients with asthma5
Joint longitudinal trajectories of pain intensity and opioid prescription in veterans with back pain5
Overview of global real‐world data sources for pediatric pharmacoepidemiologic research5
Validation studies of Japanese administrative health care data: A scoping review5
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Examining the potential direct cardiovascular benefit of tumor‐necrosis factor inhibitor in rheumatoid arthritis: Natural and controlled direct effect analyses5
Association of Pharmacist Interventions With Adverse Drug Events and Potential Adverse Drug Events5
Prevalence of self‐medication practices among pregnant women in India: A systematic review and meta‐analysis5
The impact of more restrictive hydrocodone rescheduling on unintentional pediatric opioid exposures5
Method used to identify adenomyosis and potentially undiagnosed adenomyosis in a large, U.S. electronic health record database5
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Myopericarditis following COVID‐19 mRNA vaccination4
More extreme duplication in FDA Adverse Event Reporting System detected by literature reference normalization and fuzzy string matching4
Risk of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Following Early‐Onset Idiopathic Restless Legs Syndrome Treatment4
Achieving comparability in glycemic control between antidiabetic treatment strategies in pregnancy when using real world data4
Utilization of opioid versus non‐opioid analgesics in Medicaid and CHIP enrolled children with current asthma4
Validation of an algorithm for identifying incident cancer cases based on long‐term illness and diagnosis related group program data from the French National Health Insurance Informati4
Clarifying the causal contrast: An empirical example applying the prevalent new user study design4
Pain‐related hospitalization and emergency room visit following initial analgesic prescription after outpatient surgery4
Real‐world treatment patterns and outcomes for patients with advanced melanoma treated with immunotherapy or targeted therapy4
Staging and clean room: Constructs designed to facilitate transparency and reduce bias in comparative analyses of real‐world data4
Use of sedating medications around nursing home admission in Denmark4
Antidepressant Use Trajectories and Risk of Discontinuation After Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Diagnosis4
Development of a multivariate prediction model to identify individual case safety reports which require clinical review4
Impact of Regulatory Action on Dose Maximalization for Vitamin B6 Dietary Supplements on the Reporting Pattern for Neuropathy4
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The Medicines Intelligence Data Platform: A Population‐Based Data Resource From New South Wales, Australia4
Impact on In‐ and Out‐of‐Hospital Drug Prescriptions of Including a More Expensive Me‐Too Antidepressant in a Hospital Drug Formulary: a Controlled Longitudinal Study4
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety's core concepts in pharmacoepidemiology section at 1 year: Where do we go from here?4
Association between methylphenidate and risk of myocardial infarction: A multinational self‐controlled case series study4
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Risk of ischemic stroke associated with direct oral anticoagulants discontinuation on patients with non‐valvular atrial fibrillation4
Gout and sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors4
Kidney function and prescribed dose in middle‐aged and older patients starting selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors4
Potentially inappropriate medication use by level of polypharmacy among US Veterans 49–64 and 65–70 years old4
A Two‐Step Framework for Validating Causal Effect Estimates4
Lessons learned from a multi‐data source research collaboration: The mirabegron post‐authorization safety study program4
Implementation of risk minimization measures to reduce the risk of tuberculosis among tumor necrosis factor medication users4
Where to begin? Thirty must‐read papers for newcomers to pharmacoepidemiology4
Prescriber Adherence to Antihypertensive Prescription Guidelines and the Impact of Patient Socioeconomic Factors: A Cross‐Sectional Study Using Data From the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing4
Maternal cyclobenzaprine exposure and risk of birth defects in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997–2011) and Birth Defects Study to Evaluate Pregnancy exposureS (2014–2018)4
Validity of claims data for identifying cancer incidence in the Japan public health center‐based prospective study for the next generation4
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Core concepts in pharmacoepidemiology: Fundamentals of the cohort and case–control study designs4
Stratified analysis in comparative effectiveness studies that emulate randomized trials4
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Torsemide Versus Furosemide in Older Adults With Heart Failure4
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Hydrochlorothiazide Use and Risk of Skin Cancer: A Population‐Based Retrospective Cohort Study4
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Prevalence, Associated Risk Factors, and Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes of Statins Discontinuation: A Systematic Review3
MetaLAB‐HOI: Template standardization of health outcomes enable massive and accurate detection of adverse drug reactions from electronic health records3
Decision and timing of safety‐related labeling changes for new drugs in Japan: Comparison with the United States and the European Union3
Initiation of antidepressant medication in people with type 2 diabetes living in the United Kingdom—A retrospective cohort study3
Trend adjustment of the sequence difference when performing sequence symmetry analyses3
Altered liver function test after Covid‐19 vaccines: A retrospective control group study3
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A Real‐World Pharmacovigilance Study of FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Events for Obeticholic Acid3
High‐throughput screening for prescribing cascades among real world statin initiators3
Use of electronic health record data to examine administrations of pro re nata analgesics during hip fracture post‐acute care3
Accuracy of administrative claims prescription fill data to estimate glucocorticoid use and dose in patients with rheumatoid arthritis3
The marked oscillatory pattern in prescription opioid utilization in Canada since 2000: Selected observations and questions for outcomes and policy3
Artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance: Do we need explainability?3
Peer Review of Real‐World Data Studies and Open Science—Connecting the Last Mile3
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Quantitative Measurement of the Direct Public Health Impact of Medicines Withdrawals in Europe: Development of a Modelling Method and Proof‐of‐Concept Study to Estimate the Morbidity and Mortality Pre3
ISPE AfRIG Conference—Abstracts for PDS Publication, June 10–14, 2024, Mombasa, Kenya3
A European, Observational, 3‐Year Cohort Comparative Study on the Safety of the Fixed Dose Combination Pravastatin 40 mg/Fenofibrate 160 mg vs. Statin Alone in Real Clinical Practice: The POSE3
A Real‐World Study on Adverse Reactions of Belimumab Based on the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System Database3
Role of private prescriptions in the long‐term use of benzodiazepines and Z‐drugs: A patient‐related follow‐up study3
Performance of an automated deep learning algorithm to identify hepatic steatosis within noncontrast computed tomography scans among people with and without HIV3
Exploring parity in female authorship of pharmacoepidemiology articles: A case study of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies and its citing articles3
Prevalence of prescription opioid use during pregnancy in eight US health plans during 2001–20143
Pain Medication and Pain Intensity Following Hip Fractures—Analyses Based on the ProFem Cohort Study3
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Longitudinal effects of using and discontinuing central nervous system medications on cognitive functioning3
Combining Super Learner with high‐dimensional propensity score to improve confounding adjustment: A real‐world application in chronic lymphocytic leukemia3
Safety and effectiveness of ambrisentan in real clinical practice in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Results from the Korean post‐marketing surveillance3
Categorization of COVID‐19 severity to determine mortality risk3
Ileus in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: A retrospective, pharmacovigilance study using Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System database3
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Validation of an ICD‐10 case‐finding algorithm for endometrial cancer in US insurance claims3
Cost‐effectiveness analysis of treatment with varenicline for nicotine dependence compared with smoking cessation without pharmacotherapy in the real world3
Statin persistence and adherence among older initiators: A nationwide cohort study using the national health insurance claims database in Japan3
Sex disparities in medication changes after metformin initiation are associated with small, clinically non‐relevant, sex differences in HbA1c levels during follow‐up3
Antibiotic use in children before, during and after hospitalisation3
Assessment of pharmacovigilance guidelines in the Southern African Development Community: A document review3
Obituary: Professor Joerg Hasfrod3
Association Between β‐Adrenoreceptor Agonists and Antagonists and Parkinson's Disease: Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis3
Is it possible to identify risk factors for adverse drug reactions using a pharmacovigilance database based on spontaneous reporting?3
Oxymorphone and Oxycodone Pharmacy Purchases in US Counties: Prelude to the Largest Rural Human Immunodeficiency Virus Outbreak in US History3
Utility of fertility procedures and prenatal tests to estimate gestational age for live‐births and stillbirths in electronic health plan databases3
An algorithm‐based approach to ascertain patients with rare diseases in electronic health records using hypereosinophilic syndrome as an example3
IncidencePrevalence: An R package to calculate population‐level incidence rates and prevalence using theOMOPcommon data model3
Multiple Perspectives on the Need for Real‐World Evidence to Inform Regulatory and Health Technology Assessment Decision‐Making: Scoping Review and Stakeholder Interviews3
An investigation on the association between sodium glucose co‐transporter 2 inhibitors use and acute pancreatitis: A VigiBase study3
Have People Treated With Antihypertensives Been Diagnosed With Hypertension? A Cross‐Sectional Study in Stockholm, Sweden3
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Risk of acute pancreatitis among new users of empagliflozin compared to sulfonylureas in patients with type 2 diabetes: A post‐authorization safety study3
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