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ReviewPharmacoepidemiology and drug safety2024

Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: New-User Designs.

Qoua L Her, Julie Rouette, Jessica C Young, Michael Webster-Clark, John Tazare

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Review in Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Qoua L HerDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Julie RouetteGSK, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jessica C YoungUnit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Michael Webster-ClarkDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
John TazareDepartment of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7194-2615

Funding

Propensity scores and preventive drug use in the elderlyR01AG056479 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Til Sturmer · 2017 to 2026
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National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health R01AG056479NIA NIH HHS R01 AG056479Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we review the history and key reasons for new-user comparisons in pharmacoepidemiology, highlighting the target trial framework as a unifying framework. We describe three distinct pharmacoepidemiological new-user study designs: (1) new-user versus non-user; (2) active comparator new-user; (i.e., ACNU) and (3) prevalent new-user (i.e., PNU) designs, and discuss how each relates to key issues of defining time zero, choosing appropriate comparator groups, and potential sources of bias they do and do not account for. We use a clinical example of hormone replacement therapy and the risk of coronary heart disease to illustrate practical considerations surrounding the application of the three designs presented.

Indexed as

PharmacoepidemiologyBiasCoronary DiseaseEpidemiologic Research DesignHumansResearch Designactive comparator new user designnew‐user designpharmacoepidemiologyprevalent new user design

Identifiers

PMID39586646
PMCPMC11588434

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