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. 2020 Dec 25;60(7):3222–3234. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa771

Table 2.

Patient counts, event counts and incidence rates (IRs; per 1000 person-years) of key events according to drug use.

30-day follow-up
On-treatment follow up
Patients
Events
IR (/1000 py)
Patients
Events
IR (/1000 py)
Outcome Database T C T C T C T C T C T C
Depression AmbEMR 55 793 15 092 155 29 33.91 23.44 55 793 15 092 320 80 17.74 14.34
CCAE 66 440 22 449 79 28 14.64 15.36 66 440 22 449 557 137 8.54 9.40
Clinformatics 51 676 16 812 84 41 20.05 30.09 51 676 16 812 657 178 12.43 15.00
CPRD 9160 11 348 <5 8 <6.67 8.60 9160 11 348 36 94 1.99 3.60
DAGermany 3937 5109 <5 12 <15.48 28.63 3937 5109 40 70 15.47 19.66
IMRD 8844 8456 <5 6 <6.91 8.67 8844 8456 38 51 2.20 2.72
MDCD 7950 2286 14 6 21.61 32.29 7950 2286 90 13 15.81 10.12
MDCR 15 735 5275 13 6 10.14 13.98 15 735 5275 97 38 5.37 9.27
OpenClaims 620 081 183 312 654 161 12.85 10.70 620 081 183 312 4810 957 5.59 5.58
OptumEHR 78 528 20 244 321 66 50.56 40.30 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Meta-analysis 918 144 290 383 <1335 363 <17.77 15.28 839 616 270 139 6645 1618 6.28 6.29
Suicide and suicidal ideation AmbEMR NA NA NA NA NA NA 57 660 15 357 6 <5 0.32 <0.88
CCAE 66 533 22 471 12 <5 2.22 <2.74 66 533 22 471 81 28 1.23 1.91
Clinformatics 51 807 16 843 12 <5 2.85 <3.66 51 807 16 843 97 30 1.80 2.50
CPRD 9167 11 358 <5 <5 <6.66 <5.37 9167 11 358 7 9 0.39 0.34
IMRD 8852 8460 <5 <5 <6.91 <7.22 8852 8460 8 6 0.46 0.32
MDCD 7980 2296 <5 <5 <7.68 <26.78 7980 2296 56 18 9.71 14.08
MDCR NA NA NA NA NA NA 15 752 5278 15 6 0.83 1.45
OpenClaims 621 067 183 550 34 8 0.67 0.53 621 067 183 550 321 89 0.37 0.52
OptumEHR 79 903 20 480 18 8 2.78 4.82 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Meta-analysis 845 309 265 458 <91 <41 <1.31 <1.89 838 818 265 613 591 <191 0.55 <0.75
Hospitalization for psychosis OpenClaims 620 964 183 527 95 27 1.86 1.79 620 964 183 527 1108 221 1.28 1.28
OptumEHR 79 994 20 508 <5 <5 <0.77 <3.01 NA NA NA NA NA NA
Meta-analysis 700 958 204 035 <100 <32 <1.74 <1.91 NA NA NA NA NA NA

T, target therapy; C, comparator therapy; IR, incidence rate; py, person-years at risk; NA, not applicable (not reported because of failed diagnostics or on-treatment follow-up unavailable); AmbEMR, IQVIA Ambulatory EMR; CCAE, IBM Commercial Database; Clinformatics, Optum de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart Database; CPRD, Clinical Practice Research Datalink; DAGermany, IQVIA Disease Analyzer Germany; IMRD, IQVIA UK Integrated Medical Record Data; MDCD, IBM Multistate Medicaid; MDCR, IBM Medicare Supplemental Database; OpenClaims, IQVIA Open Claims; OptumEHR, Optum de-identified Electronic Health Record dataset.