| Study | Country Study period Study design |
Data source | Exposure definition | Non-exposure definition | Exposition period | Sample size (exposed/unexposed) Or (case / control) |
Remarks | Risk of bias |
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| Study | Country Study period Study design |
Data source | Case | Control | Exposition | Exposition period | Sample size (exposed/unexposed) Or (case / control) |
Remarks | Risk of bias |
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Bonnot 2003 |
France 1976 - 1997 case control |
European Institut of Genomutations (IEG), Lyon, France. | Infants with the studied congenital malformation. | Infants with a malformations other than this one studied. | The medical records are checked to obtain data on treatment intake and other exposures or risks. | 1st trimester | -9 / -9 | Total number of infants with a congenital malformation is 13703, but the number of cases changes according to the studied malformations. Raw data not sufficient to calculate OR (data for 'control' groups not available). | |
| After having defined a population, often on geographical criteria, these networks set up birth observatories in order to exhaustively identify neonatal malformations in their reference population. | |||||||||
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Kitchin 2022 |
Spain 2002 - 2015 case control |
The Spanish database BIFAP (Base de Datos para la Investigacion Farmacoepidemiologica en Atencion Primaria, Database for Pharmacoepidemiological Research in Primary Care). | Pregnant woman suffering a miscarriage. | Pregnant woman randomly selected from the whole cohort among women who were still at risk within follow-up, by risk-set sampling and individually matched to cases. | Database for Pharmacoepidemiological Research in Primary Care, a computerized medical longitudinal population database of electronic medical records from 10.153 primary care practitioners and pediatricians distributed on nine Autonomous Regions (out of 17), which contains prescriptions. | 1st trimester | 18070 / 54209 | Authors provided 2 exposure definitions: Use in both periods (continuers) and Use only during pregnancy (new users) => use of data for 'Use in both periods (continuers)', to decrease misclassification bais (exposure occurred before outcome). | |
| Database for Pharmacoepidemiological Research in Primary Care, a computerized medical longitudinal population database of electronic medical records from 10.153 primary care practitioners and pediatricians, which contains medical diagnoses, medical visits, hospital admissions. | |||||||||
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Sheehy 2019 |
Canada 1998 - 2015 nested case control |
A nested case-control study within the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | Pregnancies ending with spontaneous abortion (pregnancy loss between between the beginning of the sixth week of gestation and the 19th completed week of gestation, excluding planned or induced abortions). | Pregnancies ending with live births (5 for each case) randomly selected at the index date and matched with the case pregnancy by gestational age and calendar year. | The Quebec Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan database (drug name, start date, dose, and duration). | early pregnancy | 27149 / 134305 | ||
| The data sources included the medical service database the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (diagnoses, medical procedures, ...) and the MedEcho database (in-hospital diagnoses and procedures, including gestational age for planned abortions, spontaneous abortions, and deliveries). | |||||||||
Risk of bias: : NA; : low; : moderate; : serious; : critical; : unclear;