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    • Evaluated 5 candidate PS models with varying covariate combinations for 4 drug pairs.
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    • Compared the influence of general, empirical, and tailored covariates on signal detection.

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    • Alternative PS models yielded similar statistical alerting patterns (≤11 alerts).
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    • Empirically selected covariates improved confounder proxy coverage but reduced statistical power.

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