Data mining runs producing disproportionality scores

Oracle Empirica Signal performs the following data mining runs to calculate disproportionality scores for product-event terms for various subpopulations.

Data mining runs to calculate disproportionality scores for product-event terms for various subpopulations include the following:
  • One run computed using all reports in VAERS.
  • A second run computed on all reports in VAERS but is not subsetted and includes RGPS.
  • A third run restricted to US-only reports.
  • Seven additional runs corresponding to the following areas of interest: adult, elderly, fatal, female, male, pediatric, and serious

For all of the runs described in this section, the events are at the preferred term or narrow-algorithmic SMQ level of the MedDRA hierarchy.

Oracle Empirica Signal executes these runs on the data configuration specified for Data configuration for 2D runs in the signal configuration, and names the runs in accordance with that data configuration.

For example, if the data configuration specified under Data configuration for 2D runs is 20210731_VAERS, or an alias for 20210731_VAERS, then the All run will be named 20210731_VAERS - All.

In the descriptions that follow, the values shown in angle brackets (<>) represent values from the VAERS signal configuration.