Corinne Willame, Caitlin Dodd, Lieke van der Aa, Gino Picelli, Hanne-Dorthe Emborg, Johnny Kahlert, Rosa Gini, Consuelo Huerta, Elisa Martín-Merino, Chris McGee, Simon de Lusignan, Giuseppe Roberto, Marco Villa, Daniel Weibel, Lina Titievsky, Miriam C J M Sturkenboom
INTRODUCTION: The public-private ADVANCE collaboration developed and tested a system to generate evidence on vaccine benefits and risks using European electronic healthcare databases. In the safety of vaccines, background incidence rates are key to allow proper monitoring and assessment. The goals of this study were to compute age-, sex-, and calendar-year stratified incidence rates of nine autoimmune diseases in seven European healthcare databases from four countries and to assess validity by comparing with published data...
March 2021: Drug Safety: An International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience