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Pascale Tubert-bitter
Hospitalizations for Stroke in France During the COVID-19 Pandemic Before, During, and After the National Lockdown.
Background and Purpose: In France, the entire population was put under a total lockdown from March 17 to May 11, 2020 during the peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Whether the lockdown had consequences on the management of medical emergencies such as stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) has yet to be fully evaluated. This article describes hospitalization rates for acute stroke in 2 French regions that experienced contrasting rates of COVID-19 infection, before, during, and after the nationwide lockdown (January to June 2020). Methods: All patients admitted for acute stroke/TIA into all public and private hospitals of the 2 study regions were included. Data wer…
L’échantillon généraliste des bénéficiaires : un outil pour l’évaluation du risque vaccinal ?
Introduction Les bases de donnees medico-administratives sont de plus en plus utilisees pour evaluer le risque vaccinal. L’echantillon generaliste des beneficiaires (EGB) a ete cree a partir de celle de l’Assurance-maladie par echantillonnage au 1/97 e de la population francaise. L’objectif de l’etude est de calculer pour differentes associations effet indesirable/vaccin un nombre de cas necessaires et de comparer ces effectifs avec ceux disponibles dans l’EGB. Methodes L’analyse en serie de cas est une approche frequemment utilisee pour ce type d’etude. Les effectifs ont ete calcules dans ce cadre, avec et sans prise en compte de l’effet âge. Pour l’association convulsion febrile (CF)/vacc…
Validation of the French national health insurance information system as a tool in vaccine safety assessment: Application to febrile convulsions after pediatric measles/mumps/rubella immunization
In the French national health insurance information system (SNIIR-AM), routine records of health claimed reimbursements are linked to hospital admissions for the whole French population. The main focus of this work is the usability of this system for vaccine safety assessment programme. Self-controlled case series analyses were performed using an exhaustive SNIIR-AM extraction of French children aged less than 3 years, to investigate the relationship between MMR immunization and children hospitalizations for febrile convulsions, a well-documented rare adverse event, over 2009-2010. The results suggest a significant increase of febrile convulsions during the 6-11 days period following any MM…
Validation of the French national health insurance information system as a tool in vaccine safety assessment: Application to febrile convulsions after pediatric MMR immunization
International audience
Prescription drug use during pregnancy in France: a study from the national health insurance permanent sample.
International audience; PurposeTo provide an up-to-date account of drug prescription during pregnancy in France from 2011 to 2014 using the permanent sample of the French national computerized healthcare database and with a focus on recommended supplementations, fetotoxic drugs and teratogenic drugs.MethodsAll pregnancies identified by the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes list in the hospitalization database, lasting more than 9 weeks of amenorrhea and whose delivery occurred between 01/01/2011 and 12/31/2014, were included. Drugs delivered between the trimester before and until the end of the pregnancy were included. Drug exposure prevalence was calculated for …