Rocca, Elena
Gauffin, Oskar
Savage, Ruth
Vidlin, Sara Hedfors
Grundmark, Birgitta http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2799-9374
Article History
Accepted: 24 June 2021
First Online: 10 August 2021
Declarations
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: Elena Rocca, Oskar Gauffin, Ruth Savage, Sara Hedfors Vidlin and Birgitta Grundmark declare no conflicts of interest.
: No external sources of funding were used to assist in the preparation of this study. Funding for the study being published with open access has been provided by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
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: The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available due to agreements between contributors of data to the database used (VigiBase) and the custodian of this database. National centres (mainly national drug regulatory authorities) constituting the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring (PIDM) contribute data to VigiBase and the Uppsala Monitoring Centre is the custodian in its capacity as the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. Some subsets of the data may be available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The code used for the current study is not provided.
: BG, RS and OG conceived of the presented idea. All authors designed and developed the study together. OG and SV performed the algorithm development and the computations. All authors discussed results and contributed to the writing of the final manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.