Self controlled case series
A self-controlled case series to assess the effectiveness of beta blockers for heart failure in reducing hospitalisations in the elderly
... a self controlled case-series design, found variable results from the two different time peri- ods, however, results from both studies suggest that long-term treatment with beta-blockers for ...
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Effects of extreme temperatures on cardiovascular emergency hospitalizations in a Mediterranean region: a self-controlled case series study
... We thank Heather Whitaker and Yonas Wedesel for their advise on self-controlled case series analysis. We thank the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (Servei Català de Meteorologia) and the ...
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Proton pump inhibitors and the risk of pneumonia: a comparison of cohort and self-controlled case series designs
... partitioned person-time prior to exposure into separate risk periods. Results show that in the 1–30 days prior to proton pump inhibitor initiation there is over a five times greater risk of hospitalisations for pneumonia ...
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The use of relative incidence ratios in self-controlled case series studies: an overview
... The self-controlled case series design (SCCS) was developed to address a number of challenges associated with studying the association between adverse health outcomes and transient exposures, ...
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The Factorized Self-Controlled Case Series Method: An Approach for Estimating the Effects of Many Drugs on Many Outcomes
... the self- controlled case series (SCCS) ...a series of simulations in Section 5 to show that we can recover the true generating parameters from ...
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Effect of the adjuvanted (AS03) A/H1N1 2009 pandemic influenza vaccine on the risk of rejection in solid organ transplant recipients in England: a self-controlled case series
... the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method, which relies on the within-person comparison of occur- rence of outcomes of interest during risk and control periods, 35 36 thereby inherently ...
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Association of bariatric surgery with risk of acute care use for hypertension-related disease in obese adults: population-based self-controlled case series study
... This self-controlled case series study using large population- based datasets from three US states demonstrated that bar- iatric surgery is associated with a significant reduction in the risk ...
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Investigating the assumptions of the self controlled case series method
... The self-controlled case series (or SCCS) method is used to investigate the potential association between an exposure and an acute adverse event of ...
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Effectiveness of live attenuated influenza vaccine in preventing amoxicillin prescribing in preschool children : a self controlled case series study
... This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy following peer review. The version of record Pia Hardelid, Yonas ...
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Acute kidney injury and infections in patients taking antihypertensive drugs: a self-controlled case series analysis
... a self-controlled case series design to calculate age-adjusted incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for AKI during risk periods following acute infection relative to noninfected periods ...
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A comparison of estimators from self-controlled case series, case-crossover design, and sequence symmetry analysis for pharmacoepidemiological studies
... existing self-controlled methods, self- controlled case series (SCCS) [4, 5], case-crossover (CCO) design [6, 7], and sequence symmetry analysis (SSA) [8, 9] are ...
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Risk of hospitalisation with fever following MenB vaccination : self-controlled case series analysis
... 6 The results have shown a significant increased risk of hospital admission with fever within 7 three days of the routine childhood immunisation schedule at 8 and 16 weeks dose 1 and 3 8[r] ...
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Acetaminophen administration and the risk of acute kidney injury: a self-controlled case series study
... Our data showed that the incidence rate of AKI associated with APAP administration was 1.03 times higher than the reference and was 1.05 times higher in the washout period. Point estimates were slightly > 1.0, but it ...
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Self-controlled designs in pharmacoepidemiology involving electronic healthcare databases: a systematic review
... collected, self-controlled designs are an interesting option in observational studies of pharma- ceuticals ...[5]. Self-controlled designs are based only on cases, which then act as their own ...
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Risk of seizures after immunization in children with epilepsy: a risk interval analysis
... a self- controlled case series of adults and children 0–24 years of age with and without epilepsy which found no in- creased risk of seizure requiring inpatient or outpatient hospital care ...
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Choice of observational study design impacts on measurement of antipsychotic risks in the elderly: a systematic review
... contrast, case– control studies failed to find statistically significant results for either outcome ...definition. Case–control studies often employ techniques to minimise possible bias, such as matching or ...
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Febrile seizures after 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccination and infection: a nationwide registry based study
... a self-controlled case series (SCCS) method to estimate the incidence rate ratio (IRR) of febrile seizures in various risk periods following influenza vaccination and influenza infection ...
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Improvement of Long Distance Transmission by Using TCSC Fact Device
... Abstract: The prudent point of view of Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) establishment and execution has been an essential issue since origin and expanding each day because of vital, specialized and showcase ...
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THYRISTOR CONTROLLED REACTOR (TCR) AND GTO CONTROLLED SERIES CAPACITOR (GCSC)
... Thyristor controlled reactor (TCR) and GTO Controlled Series Capacitor (GCSC), equipment for controlled series compensation of transmission ...thyristor controlled reactor is ...
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FACTS devices use power electronic
... in case of FC-TCR compensation, reactive power flow improves proportionally with increasing capacitance and is maximum at maximum value of capacitance (1000µF ...In case of STATCOM compensation a capacitor ...
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