| アブストラクト | OBJECTIVES: To determine whether observational studies that use an electronic medical record database can provide valid results of therapeutic effectiveness and to develop new methods to enhance validity. DESIGN: Data from the UK general practice research database (GPRD) were used to replicate previously performed randomised controlled trials, to the extent that was feasible aside from randomisation. Studies Six published randomised controlled trials. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Cardiovascular outcomes analysed by hazard ratios calculated with standard biostatistical methods and a new analytical technique, prior event rate ratio (PERR) adjustment. RESULTS: In nine of 17 outcome comparisons, there were no significant differences between results of randomised controlled trials and database studies analysed using standard biostatistical methods or PERR analysis. In eight comparisons, Cox adjusted hazard ratios in the database differed significantly from the results of the randomised controlled trials, suggesting unmeasured confounding. In seven of these eight, PERR adjusted hazard ratios differed significantly from Cox adjusted hazard ratios, whereas in five they didn't differ significantly, and in three were more similar to the hazard ratio from the randomised controlled trial, yielding PERR results more similar to the randomised controlled trial than Cox (P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Although observational studies using databases are subject to unmeasured confounding, our new analytical technique (PERR), applied here to cardiovascular outcomes, worked well to identify and reduce the effects of such confounding. These results suggest that electronic medical record databases can be useful to investigate therapeutic effectiveness. |
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| ジャーナル名 | BMJ (Clinical research ed.) |
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| 投稿日 | 2009/1/29 |
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| 投稿者 | Tannen, Richard L; Weiner, Mark G; Xie, Dawei |
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| 組織名 | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 295 John Morgan Building, 36th and;Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. tannen@mail.med.upenn.edu |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19174434/ |
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