Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety Journal Issues Research Articles in April 2020 Edition

BETHESDA, Maryland, April 28 -- Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, a journal that says it provides an international forum for the communication and evaluation of data, methods and opinion in the discipline of pharmacoepidemiology from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition:

* Medical device active surveillance of spontaneous reports: A literature review of signal detection methods

ORIGINAL REPORTS:

* Descriptive analysis of postmarket surveillance data for hip implants

* Impact of pre-exposure time bias in self-controlled case series when the event conditions the exposure: Hip/femur fracture and use of benzodiazepines as a case study

* Adverse drug reaction or innocent bystander? A systematic comparison of statistical discovery methods for spontaneous reporting systems

* Validation of claims-based algorithms for psoriatic arthritis

* Validation of algorithms to identify adverse perinatal outcomes in the Medicaid Analytic Extract database

* A survey of clarithromycin monotherapy and long-term administration of ethambutol for patients with MAC lung disease in Japan: A retrospective cohort study using the database of health insurance claims

* Evolution of polypharmacy in a spanish population (2005-2015): A database study

* Determinants of antidementia drug prescription in patients older than 65: A latent class analysis

* Characteristics of finasteride users in comparison with nonusers: A Nordic nationwide study based on individual-level data from Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

* Overuse of proton pump inhibitors in nursing homes: An Italian multicenter observational study

* Identifying drug combinations associated with acute kidney injury using association rules method

* Off-label use of prescription analgesics among hospitalized children in the United States

* Medication burden and frailty in older adults with intellectual disability: An observational cross-sectional study

* Chronic opioid use in women following hysterectomy: Patterns and predictors

The April 2020 edition of the Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Journal can be viewed at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991557/2020/29/4. The journal is published by John Wiley & Sons.