| 摘要 |
Method and system for identifying safety concerns regarding a new drug. In o ne example, a database of healthcare claims is utilized and the method may include identifying from the database a first group of patients that have received the drug; extracti ng one or more medical events that the first group of patients have experienced; identifying a seco nd group of patients that have received a comparator drug; extracting one or more medical events that the second group of patients have experienced; and comparing the one or more medical events of the first group to the one or more medical events of the second group to determine one or more common occurrences therebetween. The method may also include computing a probabilit y value for each of the one or more common occurrences. In this way, embodiments of the prese nt invention may be used to identify and quantify the probability that certain medical events will occur to patients taking the new drug.
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