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Activity Number: 624
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #306731
Title: Confounder Adjustment in Vaccine Safety Studies: Comparing Three Offset Terms for Case-Centered Approach
Author(s): Lei Qian*+ and HungFu Tseng and Lina S Sy and Steven J Jacobsen
Companies: Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Address: 1620 Hyland Ave, Arcadia, CA, 91006-1810, United States
Keywords: Vaccine Safety ; Study Design ; Case Series ; Seasonality
Abstract:

The case-centered approach can be useful in vaccine safety studies to adjust for time varying confounders, especially seasonality. The method compares the observed odds of vaccination in the time interval prior to the event with the expected odds of vaccination during this interval. The log of the expected odds is included in the analysis model as an offset term and it is critical to correctly estimate vaccine effects. In a recent Zostavax® safety study, we used three alternative sources of reasonable expectations for the offset term. We conducted a simulation study to compare the performance of the three offset terms with different types of seasonal confounders and at different degrees of confounding. The offset term calculated by modeling the timing of vaccination based on predictors such as age, sex and site resulted in the least biased estimate of relative risk.


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