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The Role of Hemoglobin Laboratory Test Results for the Detection of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Outcomes Resulting from the Use of Medications in Observational Studies

Basic Details
Date
Type
Publication
Medical Product
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)
Health Outcome(s)
gastrointestinal hemorrhage
perforated ulcer
Description

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether hemoglobin results increase UGI outcome identification in electronic databases, using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as a test case.

Materials

Drug Safety; Volume 40, Issue 1, 15 November 2016, Pages 91-100; DOI:10.1007/s40264-016-0472-3

Related Assessment(s)
Analytic Methods for Using Laboratory Test Results In Active Database Surveillance
2016 ICPE Poster: Do Hemoglobin Lab Test Results Increase Detection of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (UGIB)?
Author(s)

Elisabetta Patorno MD, DrPH, Joshua Gagne PharmD, ScD, Christine Lu PhD, MSc, Kevin Haynes PharmD, MSCE, Andrew Sterret PhD, Jason Roy PhD, Marsha Raebel PharmD, Xingmei Wang MS

Corresponding Author

E. Patorno, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Email: epatorno@partners.org