Women's health in focus: Real-world data on valproate prescriptions during pregnancy - a cohort study in Catalonia (Spain).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterise the exposure to valproate within a cohort of pregnant women using electronic health records (EHRs) from Catalonia (System for the Development of Research in Primary Care, SIDIAP).

Design

Drug-utilisation cohort study covering the period from January 2011 to June 2020. The study included pregnancy episodes of women from Catalonia identified by the algorithm.

Setting

Data were sourced from SIDIAP, a comprehensive EHR repository that includes information from various data sources: recorded prescriptions (both hospital and primary care), diagnoses and sociodemographic characteristics identified by primary care physicians, and sexual and reproductive health data from ASSIR (used by gynaecologists and midwives).

Participants

Women aged 12-5

SUBMITTER: Bellas L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337672 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature