Drug exposure during pregnancy in primary care: an algorithm and observational study from SIDIAP database, Catalunya, Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop an algorithm to identify pregnancy episodes in women at childbearing age using SIDIAP (Information System for the Improvement of Research in Primary Care) data (Catalunya, Spain).To describe drugs dispensed during gestation.

Design

Construction of an algorithm to identify all pregnancy episodes occurred from January 2011 to June 2020 in women aged 12-50. The variables used to create the algorithm include first day of last menstrual period, reasons for pregnancy termination and diagnoses registered in the primary healthcare records. Population-based cohort study including the pregnancy episodes identified by the algorithm.

Setting

Catalonia, Spain.

Participants

All women aged 12-50 with at least one pregnancy episode occurred during January

SUBMITTER: Leston Vazquez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10445402 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature