Safety signal detection with control of latent factors

Author:

Tan Xianming12ORCID,Wang William3,Zeng Donglin1,Liu Guanghan F.3ORCID,Diao Guoqing4ORCID,Jafari Niusha3,Alt Ethan M.1ORCID,Ibrahim Joseph G.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biostatistics at Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA

2. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina USA

3. Merck and Co., Inc. North Wales Pennsylvania USA

4. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University Washington DC USA

Abstract

Postmarket drug safety database like vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS) collect thousands of spontaneous reports annually, with each report recording occurrences of any adverse events (AEs) and use of vaccines. We hope to identify signal vaccine‐AE pairs, for which certain vaccines are statistically associated with certain adverse events (AE), using such data. Thus, the outcomes of interest are multiple AEs, which are binary outcomes and could be correlated because they might share certain latent factors; and the primary covariates are vaccines. Appropriately accounting for the complex correlation among AEs could improve the sensitivity and specificity of identifying signal vaccine‐AE pairs. We propose a two‐step approach in which we first estimate the shared latent factors among AEs using a working multivariate logistic regression model, and then use univariate logistic regression model to examine the vaccine‐AE associations after controlling for the latent factors. Our simulation studies show that this approach outperforms current approaches in terms of sensitivity and specificity. We apply our approach in analyzing VAERS data and report our findings.

Publisher

Wiley

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