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Adverse Drug Reactions

Research from M.H. Samore and co-researchers yields new findings on adverse drug reactions

Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, November 7th, 2007

Current study results from the report, 'A simulation-based evaluation of methods to estimate the impact of an adverse event on hospital length of stay,' have been published. According to recent research from the United States, "INTRODUCTION: We used agent-based simulation to examine the problem of time-varying confounding when estimating the effect of an adverse event on hospital length of stay. Conventional analytic methods were compared with inverse probability weighting (IPW)."

"A cohort of hospitalized patients, at risk for experiencing an adverse event, was simulated. Synthetic individuals were assigned a severity of illness score on admission. The score varied...

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