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. 2021 Jun 6;44(8):853–861. doi: 10.1007/s40264-021-01081-z

Table 1.

Number (percentage) of respondents (all, industry and other) that considered the common data elements-related questions importanta with p-values of Pearson χ2 tests for differences between industry and the other stakeholders

All (N = 73) Industry (N = 42) Other (N = 31) P-value
Medication: which of the following details with regard to the medicinal product to treat the disease of interest should be captured?
 Dosage 70 (96) 40 (95) 30 (97) 0.74
 Substance name 66 (90) 40 (95) 26 (84) 0.10
 Reason for stop/switch to other product registered 65 (89) 39 (93) 26 (84) 0.22
 Start and stop date 61 (84) 35 (83) 26 (84) 0.95
 Duration of the treatment 49 (67) 25 (60) 24 (77) 0.11
 ATCb classification 33 (45) 14 (33) 19 (61) 0.02
Pregnancy: if women of childbearing potential are captured in the registry, how important is the collection of the following data if a woman becomes pregnant?c
 Exposure during pregnancyd 64 (90) 42 (100) 22 (76) <0.01
 Outcome of pregnancyd 64 (90) 40 (95) 24 (83) 0.20
 Trimester during exposuree,f 58 (84) 36 (88) 22 (79) 0.61
 Follow-up teratogenic eventsd,g 58 (84) 35 (88) 23 (79) 0.26
 Follow-up childd,g 55 (80) 34 (85) 21 (72) 0.12
 Follow-up mothere,h 51 (75) 33 (80) 18 (67) 0.25
 Birth weightf,g 43 (63) 23 (58) 20 (71) 0.06
Safety outcomes: which adverse drug events should be collected?
 Adverse events of special interest 47 (64) 27 (64) 20 (65) 0.98
 Serious adverse events 45 (62) 24 (57) 21 (68) 0.36
 All adverse events 31 (42) 18 (43) 13 (42) 0.94
For adverse events potentially related to medicinal products the following should be recordedc
 Severity of the event 71 (97) 41 (98) 30 (97) 0.97
 Duration of the event 62 (85) 34 (81) 28 (90) 0.74
 A causality assessmente 61 (85) 38 (90) 23 (77) 0.30

aAn element was considered important if ≥80% of the respondents gave it a score of important or very important

bATC classification: Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification

cQuestion assessed using a Likert scale. See ESM, for additional figures of all answers to the Likert scales

dTwo missing from the respondents from the other stakeholders

eOne missing from the respondents from industry

fThree missing from the respondents from the other stakeholders

gTwo missing from the respondents from industry

hFour missing from the respondents from the other stakeholders