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Framework for Assessment of Positive Results from Signal Refinement

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    Medical product post-market safety surveillance can be conceptualized as a three stage process involving signal generation, signal refinement, and signal evaluation. This article describes a framework developed by the Mini-Sentinel pilot study for signal refinement, which involves the assessment of predefined exposure-outcome pairs to determine whether there is an association

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    David L. McClure PhD, Marsha A. Raebel PharmD, W. Katherine Yih PhD, MPH, Azadeh Shoaibi PhD, MHS, MS, Jerald E. Mullersman MD, PhD, MPH, Colin Anderson-Smits MPH, Jason M. Glanz PhD

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    D. McClure, Epidemiology Research Center/ML2, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, 1000 North Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA. E-mail: mcclure.david@marshfieldclinic.org