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  • Real-world COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) studies face challenges with complex exposures and confounding factors.
  • Propensity score methods are effective for dichotomous exposures but less so for multinomial ones.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare alternative confounding adjustment methods in COVID-19 VE studies using a test-negative design.
  • To evaluate the performance of disease risk score (DRS) adjustment versus multivariable logistic regression.

Main Methods:

  • Simulated datasets with multinomial vaccination exposure were used.
  • Compared stratification and direct adjustment using DRS against multivariable logistic regression with all or key covariates.

Main Results:

  • Multivariable models showed minimal bias (-5.3% to 6.1%) and good coverage probabilities (93.7%-95.3%).
  • DRS-adjusted models had low bias (-2.2% to 4.2%) but underestimated standard errors, leading to lower coverage (87.8%-94.8%).
  • Performance varied across modeling strategies and exposure groups.

Conclusions:

  • Multivariable models adjusting for individual covariates performed better than DRS-adjusted models.
  • DRS adjustment is adequate but less precise than multivariable approaches for complex VE studies.