Estimating medication stopping fraction and real-time prevalence of drug use in pharmaco-epidemiologic databases. An application of the reverse waiting time distribution.

Eeva-Liisa Røssell Johansen Jesper Hallas Nina Sahlertz Kristiansen

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2017)

The reverse WTD allows estimation of the aggregated fraction of users stopping treatment and prevalence, especially when the WTD reliably separates current users from users who have stopped treatment. It may replace ad-hoc decision rules for automated implementations, and it yields estimates of real-time prevalence. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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