Validity of congenital malformation diagnoses in healthcare claims from a university hospital in Japan.
Tomofumi IshikawaGen OyanagiTaku ObaraAoi NodaKei MorishitaShuyu TakagiRyusuke InoueHiroshi KawameNariyasu ManoPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2021)
The PPVs for CMs in the Japanese administrative data were high enough to suggest that these data could be utilized for perinatal pharmacoepidemiological evaluations. The results were from a single center, and further validation studies are needed.