Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs.
Elizabeth A SuarezMichael NguyenDi ZhangYueqin ZhaoDanijela StojanovicMonica A MuñozJane LiedtkaAbby AndersonWei LiuInna DashevskySandra DeLucciaTalia MenzinJennifer NobleJudith C MaroPublished in: Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) (2022)
Use of the Poisson model with an outcome definition that prioritizes sensitivity may be optimal for signal detection. TreeScan is a viable method for surveillance of adverse infant outcomes following maternal medication use.