Standard Argus Subpopulations

The Signal Management feature of Oracle Empirica Signal reports the results of statistical analysis of all spontaneous records in the Argus database.

For comparison, it also reports the results of statistical analyses performed only on reports with certain shared characteristics within the database: for example, reports involving elderly reports only, or reports with a fatal outcome only.

To identify different subpopulations and types of cases in the Argus database, a set of standard queries is supplied and then used as database restrictions in data mining runs.

The standard subpopulations or types of cases used for Signal Management are:

Population	Default Query
Adult	(Case/derived) AgeGroup4 equals '18_64'
Elderly	(Case/derived) AgeGroup4 equals '65_above'
Fatal	(Case/derived) Fatal YN = 'Y'
Female	(Case/derived) Patient Gender equals 'F'
Male	(Case/derived) Patient Gender equals 'M'
Pediatric	(Case/derived) AgeGroup4 equals '00_17'
Serious	(Case/derived) Seriousness YN equals 'Y'
Study	(Case) Report type in 'Sponsored Trial', 'Post Marketing Surv.'