| The incident user design in comparative effectiveness research. | |
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PMID: 23023988 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Comparative effectiveness research includes cohort studies and registries of interventions. When investigators design such studies, how important is it to follow patients from the day they initiated treatment with the study interventions? Our article considers this question and related issues to start a dialogue on the value of the incident user design in comparative effectiveness research. By incident user design, we mean a study that sets the cohort's inception date according to patients' new use of an intervention. In contrast, most epidemiologic studies enroll patients who were currently or recently using an intervention when follow-up began. We take the incident user design as a reasonable default strategy because it reduces biases that can impact non-randomized studies, especially when investigators use healthcare databases. We review case studies where investigators have explored the consequences of designing a cohort study by restricting to incident users, but most of the discussion has been informed by expert opinion, not by systematic evidence. Published 2012. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. |
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Eric S Johnson; Barbara A Bartman; Becky A Briesacher; Neil S Fleming; Tobias Gerhard; Cynthia J Kornegay; Parivash Nourjah; Brian Sauer; Glen T Schumock; Art Sedrakyan; Til Stürmer; Suzanne L West; Sebastian Schneeweiss |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-10-1 |
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Title: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety Volume: - ISSN: 1099-1557 ISO Abbreviation: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-1 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9208369 Medline TA: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Published 2012. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. |
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The Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, Oregon, USA. |
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