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Burden of Exacerbations in Patients with Moderate to Very Severe COPD in the Netherlands: A Real-life Study

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare rates of different types of acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPDs) and healthcare utilization among patients with different severities of COPD. METHODS: Data for this study was obtained from theHARMO Database Network, which includes drug dispensing records from pharmacies, hospitalization records and information from general practitioners

1 April 2015

Healthcare utilisation in patients with breast cancer or non-Hodgkin lymphoma who experienced febrile neutropenia in the Netherlands: a retrospective matched control study using the PHARMO database

Few data have been published on healthcare resource utilisation associated with chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia (FN) in Europe. Using the PHARMO record linkage system, we identified incident adult patients with a primary hospital dischargediagnosis of breast cancer (BC) or non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) from 1998 to 2008

1 March 2015

The Epidemiology of Hip and Major Osteoporotic Fractures in a Dutch Population of Community-Dwelling Elderly: Implications for the Dutch FRAX(R) Algorithm

BACKGROUND: Incidence rates of non-hip major osteoporotic fractures (MOF) remain poorly characterized in the Netherlands. The Dutch FRAX(R) algorithm, which predicts 10-year probabilities of hip fracture and MOF (first of hip, humerus, forearm, cliical vertebral), therefore incorporates imputed MOF rates

1 January 2015

Patterns of metachronous metastases after curative treatment of colorectal cancer

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to provide information on timing, anatomical location, and predictors for metachronous metastases of colorectal cancer based on a large consecutive series of non-selected patients. METHODS: All patients operated on withcurative intent for colorectal cancer (TanyNanyM0) between 2003 and 2008 in the Dutch Eindhoven Cancer Registry were included (N=5671)

1 August 2014

Pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke in lung cancer patients: results from a longitudinal study

PURPOSE: In this cohort study, the rates of pulmonary embolism (PE), myocardial infarction (MI), and ischemic stroke (IS) before and after lung cancer (LC) diagnosis were compared to cancer-free controls. METHODS: Patients with LC during 2000-2007ere selected from PALGA, the Dutch Pathology Registry, and linked to the PHARMO medical record linkage system, including drug use and hospitalizations of 3 million inhabitants in the Netherlands

1 October 2013

First year of life medication use and hospital admission rates: premature compared with term infants

OBJECTIVE: To compare hospitalization and medication use during the first year of life in preterm-born and term-born infants. STUDY DESIGN: Data for this retrospective cohort study were obtained from the linked PHARMO-Netherlands Perinatal Registrycohort. From this linked birth cohort, preterm infants (<37 weeks) born between 2004 and 2007 were randomly matched to 4 full-term infants

1 July 2013

Increased use of antimicrobial agents and hospital admission for infections in patients with primary adrenal insufficiency: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that infections are an important cause of death in patients with Addison’s disease, but epidemiological studies on the frequency of infections in this population are lacking. OBJECTIVE: To assess and compre the incidence risk of infections in patients with primary adrenal insufficiency with controls

1 April 2013

Increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest in obstructive pulmonary disease: a case-control study

BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine whether (1) patients with obstructive pulmonary disease (OPD) have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) due to ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation (VT/VF), and (2) the SCA risk is mediated by cardioascular risk-profile and/or respiratory drug use. METHODS: A community-based case-control study was performed, with 1310 cases of SCA of the ARREST study and 5793 age, sex and SCA-date matched non-SCA controls from the PHARMO database

1 January 2013

Risk of myocardial infarction in Dutch patients following discharge for total hip/knee replacement and matched controls: a population-based cohort study

Purpose

1 January 2013

Risk of fractures in patients with multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study

OBJECTIVE: To examine the risk of fracture in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with population-based controls. METHODS: A population-based cohort study was performed in the Dutch PHARMO Record Linkage System (1998-2008). Patients withMS (n = 2,415) were matched by year of birth, sex, and practice to up to 6 patients without MS (controls)

1 June 2012