| Study | Type of data | Exposure measurement | Outcome assessment | Adjustment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonnot, 2003 | case control | The medical records are checked to obtain data on treatment intake and other exposures or risks. | 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. | Adjusted for age and parity. |
| Kitchin, 2022 | case control | 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. | 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. | Controls individually matched to cases (maternal age, gestational age, and year of Last Menstrual Period date). Adjusted by number of GP visits, obesity, smoking, HTA, diabetes. |
| Sheehy, 2019 | nested case control | The Quebec Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan database (drug name, start date, dose, and duration). | 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). | Adjusted for (1) maternal sociodemographic variables (2) maternal chronic conditions (hypertension, diabetes, depression/anxiety, alcohol ...), (3) health care resources utilization, (4) pregnancy-associated variables, (5) concomitant exposure to antidepressants and/or antipsychotics. Matched by gestational age and calendar year. Exclusion of women with epilepsy and exposed to known teratogens. |