An overview of methodological flaws of real-world studies investigating drug safety in the post-marketing setting

S Crisafulli, Z Khan, Y Karatas, M Tuccori… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The evaluation of the post-marketing safety profile of drugs is a continuous
monitoring process for approved and marketed medicines and it is crucial for detecting new …

Quality of systematic reviews with meta‐analyses of resveratrol: A methodological systematic review

C Lu, L Ke, Q Zhang, X Deng, W Shang… - Phytotherapy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, several meta‐analyses (MAs) have focused on the health effects of resveratrol.
However, the methodological and reporting quality of these MAs has not yet been fully …

Toward open and reproducible epidemiology

MB Mathur, MP Fox - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Starting in the 2010s, researchers in the experimental social sciences rapidly began to
adopt increasingly open and reproducible scientific practices. These practices include …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence and pharmacovigilance: what is happening, what could happen and what should happen?

A Bate, JU Stegmann - Health Policy and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Hardly a day passes without one reading about the prophecies of artificial intelligence (AI).
AI has been defined as 'the part of computer science concerned with designing systems that …

[HTML][HTML] The IHI Rochester Report 2022 on healthcare informatics research: resuming after the CoViD-19

C Combi, JC Facelli, P Haddawy, JH Holmes… - Journal of Healthcare …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In 2020, the CoViD-19 pandemic spread worldwide in an unexpected way and
suddenly modified many life issues, including social habits, social relationships, teaching …

Association of bipolar disorder diagnosis with suicide mortality rates in adolescents in Sweden

P Andersson, J Jokinen, H Jarbin, J Lundberg… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The association of early diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder with
adolescent suicide mortality (ASM) is unknown. Objective To assess regional associations …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of reporting quality of cohort studies using real-world data based on RECORD: systematic review

R Zhao, W Zhang, ZD Zhang, C He, R Xu… - BMC Medical Research …, 2023 - Springer
Objective Real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) have been paid more and
more attention in recent years. We aimed to evaluate the reporting quality of cohort studies …

[HTML][HTML] Using public clinical trial reports to probe non-experimental causal inference methods

E Steinberg, N Ignatiadis, S Yadlowsky, Y Xu… - BMC Medical Research …, 2023 - Springer
Background Non-experimental studies (also known as observational studies) are valuable
for estimating the effects of various medical interventions, but are notoriously difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to address current challenges in real-world evidence generation in Japan

T Laurent, D Lambrelli, R Wakabayashi… - Drugs-Real World …, 2023 - Springer
The generation of real-world evidence (RWE), which describes patient characteristics or
treatment patterns using real-world data (RWD), is rapidly growing more popular as a tool for …

Markov modeling for cost-effectiveness using federated health data network

M Haug, M Oja, M Pajusalu, K Mooses… - Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objective To introduce 2 R-packages that facilitate conducting health economics research
on OMOP-based data networks, aiming to standardize and improve the reproducibility …