European pharmacoepidemiologic data on medicines in pregnancy is collected in different ways in different parts of Europe. To understand the effects of medicine use in pregnancy, we need to find a way to describe and better understand data sources. We also need a model that can handle the differences, without losing the details. ConcePTION has designed a tailored data model that can capture and preserve the granularity of data from different sources in Europe. This common data model is efficient, transparent, comes at a low cost and is ready for use in studies.
A team of ConcePTION researchers presented their framework to describe data sources and the ConcePTION common data model at the conference of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology on August 23 2021. According to Romin Pajouheshina, who worked on this model as part of a large group of scientists in the IMI-ConcePTION project the model introduces a set of concepts to describe the different European data sources that we use in the ConcePTION project. The concepts are built on interviews with 20 different data access providers who together cover 21 of the data sources used in the project.
This is one part of our effort to bridge the knowledge gap on medicine safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Romin Pajouheshina is Assistant Professor at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences at Utrecht University, and affiliate of University Medical Center Utrecht. According to him, this ConcePTION common data model will become a keystone in a federated network of data sources, that will add data on medicine safety in pregnancy to the European Health Data Space.
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