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  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Vaccine adverse event databases are vital for pharmacovigilance.
  • Current methods include qualitative (case series) and quantitative (proportional reporting ratio) analyses.
  • Assessing the utility and methodology of these databases is essential for reliable signal detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the usefulness of adverse event databases for detecting safety signals.
  • To determine the appropriate study design and measures of association for analyzing these databases.
  • To identify and mitigate potential biases in vaccine safety surveillance.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized causal diagrams as a contemporary methodological tool.
  • Applied the analytical approach to analyze reported outcomes for COVID-19 vaccines.
  • Examined specific adverse events: Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, and reported death.

Main Results:

  • Adverse event databases function as case-control studies and require appropriate analysis.
  • The odds ratio is the preferred measure of association over the proportional reporting ratio.
  • Reporting bias inflates the odds ratio, while control selection bias attenuates it; bias magnitude depends on the reference vaccine.

Conclusions:

  • Adverse event databases offer rich quantitative research potential if methodological guidelines are followed.
  • Analysis should adhere to case-control study principles, with inferences made case-by-case.
  • Estimating reporting accuracy per vaccine type through clinical evaluation of records is critical.