TY - JOUR
AU - Rudan, Igor
AU - Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal
AU - Kerr, Steven
AU - Millington, Tristan
AU - Grange, Zoe
AU - Sullivan, Christopher
AU - Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi F.
AU - Swallow, Ben
AU - Kurdi, Amanj
AU - Morrison, Kirsty
AU - Jeffrey, Karen
AU - Simpson, Colin R
AU - Robertson, Chris
AU - Ritchie, Lewis D.
AU - Sheikh, Aziz
PY - 2024
DA - August
TI - Selecting the most informative positive and negative controls for self-controlled case series (SCCS) : rationale, approach, and lessons from studies investigating the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
JO - Journal of Global Health
VL - 14
DO - https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.14.03037
AB - The self-controlled case series (SCCS) is a study design used in epidemiology to test for variation in outcomes for a group of individuals before and after an exposure or intervention, with each pre-intervention individual serving as a control for themselves in the post-intervention period. The design is particularly useful for studying rare events or outcomes that occur in a time-dependent manner, such as uncommon side-effects of a medical intervention [1–3]. In the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) study, we used this SCCS design to evaluate the safety of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in various age groups of the Scottish and UK populations.
PB - International Society of Global Health
UR - https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/90189/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Immunisation and screening
ER