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  • 1Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, MA, USA.

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Quantitative correction for misclassified prenatal influenza vaccination slightly increased the hazard ratio for preterm birth. This probabilistic bias analysis method improves understanding of time-varying exposure effects in epidemiological studies.

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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Survival analysis is crucial in perinatal epidemiology for evaluating time-varying risk factors.
  • Accurate assessment of pregnancy outcomes requires addressing exposure misclassification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply quantitative correction for exposure misclassification in a Cox regression model.
  • To evaluate the impact of misclassified prenatal influenza vaccination on preterm birth risk.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a time-varying exposure Cox regression model with gestational age as the time-scale.
  • Employed probabilistic bias analysis, incorporating vaccination date assignment, to model exposure misclassification.
  • Derived bias analysis parameters from internal and external validation data.

Main Results:

  • Bias-corrected analysis yielded a slightly higher adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) for preterm birth (1.04) compared to conventional analysis (1.00).
  • The bias-corrected AHR had wider simulation intervals (0.70-1.52) than the conventional confidence intervals (0.71-1.41), indicating reduced precision.

Conclusions:

  • Probabilistic bias analysis offers a quantitative method to assess the confounder-adjusted effect of time-varying exposure misclassification.
  • This approach moves beyond speculative understanding of information bias in epidemiological research.