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Testing Routine Querying Tools with Known Positive Exposure-Outcome Associations: Angioedema Events After Use of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors Versus Beta-blockers

Basic Details
Date Posted
Status
Complete
Medical Product
angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor
beta blocker
Health Outcome(s)
angioedema
Description

This statistical methods project is one of four workgroups that used exposure/outcome pairs with known positive associations to test Mini-Sentinel (now Sentinel) routine querying tools. Specifically, these known positive associations tested the Cohort Identification and Descriptive Analysis (CIDA) tool in combination with the Propensity Score Analysis (PSA) tool.

This known positive test case assessed ACE inhibitors versus beta-blockers and risk of angioedema. The CIDA tool was used to identify new users of these medications. Information generated by the CIDA tool was used by the PSM tool to match cohort members based on propensity score. Propensity scores were calculated using a list of user-defined covariates. One run of the program was required. The time window was January 1st, 2008 to September 30th, 2013.