Journal
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 238-246Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1902
Keywords
pharmacovigilance; data-mining; health insurance claims database; relative risk; rosuvastatin
Funding
- Korea Food & Drug Administration [07072KFDA211]
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Purpose To detect adverse drug reaction (ADR) signals of rosuvastatin compared to other statins with a novel data-mining approach based on relative risk (RR) using the national health insurance claims database, and to evaluate the usefulness of this method as a tool for signal detection. Methods We used the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) claims database (Seoul, Korea). Serious adverse events (SAE) were defined as any diagnostic code at the time of hospitalization within 12 weeks from a statin prescription date, regardless of causality. Among statin users, RRs were calculated to compare the proportion of rosuvastatin-specific SAE pairs for rosuvastatin users with the corresponding proportion of drug-SAE pairs for users of other statins. Any SAE for which the lower limit of the RR's 95% confidence interval was greater than 1 was defined as a signal. All detected signals were reviewed to determine whether the signals corresponded with published adverse events (AEs) exclusive to rosuvastatin. Results Among 96236 elderly outpatients who received rosuvastatin, or other statins, from January 2005 to September 2005, 40304 drug-SAE pairs and 376 SAEs were observed. Twenty-five (6.6%) SAEs were detected as signals by the RR-based data-mining approach. Among the 13 references AEs published to be exclusive to rosuvastatin, 8 (61.5%) were found to correspond with the detected signals with a positive predictive value (PPV) of 32%. Conclusions The RR-based data-mining approach successfully detected signals for rosuvastatin using a national health insurance claims database. This approach could be useful for safety surveillance of marketed products. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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