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. 2015 Jul 8;38(10):895–908. doi: 10.1007/s40264-015-0314-8

Table 3.

AUC for FAERS and NYP/CUMC EHR before and after confounding adjustment

ADR FAERS NYP/CUMC EHR
Unadjusted Adjusted Unadjusted Adjusted
Acute renal failure 0.50 0.89* 0.58 0.61
Acute liver injury 0.50 0.70* 0.55 0.45
Acute myocardial infarction 0.48 0.65* 0.44 0.53
Upper GI bleed 0.49 0.83* 0.48 0.54
Total 0.49 0.75* 0.55 0.51

Unadjusted: signal scores (one-sided p values) are not adjusted for the confounding effect

Adjusted: signal scores (one-sided p values) are adjusted for the confounding effect

The bold values indicate the highest AUC performance but not necessarily significantly higher than comparators except for those also marked with * where the performance difference is statistically significant

ADR adverse drug reaction, AUC area under the receiver operator characteristics curve, EHR Electronic health record, FAERS FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, NYP/CUMC New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center