Drug Safety Matters

#12 Improving signal detection with vigiGroup – Jim Barrett & Joe Mitchell

December 16, 2021 Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Drug Safety Matters
#12 Improving signal detection with vigiGroup – Jim Barrett & Joe Mitchell
Show Notes

Statistical tools can not only cut through the noise in large pharmacovigilance databases. They can also help identify more clinically meaningful patterns in the data. Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s Jim Barrett and Joe Mitchell explain how vigiGroup, a novel clustering algorithm, can bring value to signal detection.

Tune in to find out:

  • What the limits of traditional disproportionality analysis are
  • How clustering algorithms can improve current signal detection practices
  • How vigiGroup has helped monitor the safety of COVID-19 vaccines so far

Want to know more?

For more on signal detection at Uppsala Monitoring Centre, visit the Signal Work section on our website or listen to this interview with Helena Sköld and Annette Rudolph on vaccine pharmacovigilance.

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