4182.0 Other topics in epidemiology

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session will include presentations of epidemiological research from fields as diverse as pharmacoepidemiology, injury/violence, and epidemiology methods. A discussion of the use of instrumental variables in prescription drug research, will be followed by presentations of epidemiological research about youth violence, drowning mortality, and the fetal effects of anticonvulsant polytherapy exposure.
Session Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the learner (participant) will be able to: 1) Briefly introduce instrumental variable approach that addresses unmeasured confounding bias in observational studies; 2) Describe the demographics and trend analysis in unintentional drowning mortality in the United States from 1999–2006; and 3) Differentiate between the risk of antiepileptic drug (AED) polytherapies and the risk of individual drugs in AED polytherapies taken by pregnant women.
Moderator:
Catherine L. Troisi, PhD

12:35pm
Use of Instrumental Variable in Prescription Drug Research with Observational Data: A Systematic Review
Yong Chen, MD, MHS and Becky Briesacher, PhD
Introductory Remarks
12:55pm
"You get caught up": The role of opportunity in decision-making around youth violence
Luke O. Hansen, MD, MHS, Barbara Tinney, MSW, Chisara Asomugha, MD, MSPH, Jill Barron, MD, MHS, Mitesh Rao, MD, MHS, Georgina Lucas, MSW, Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH and Marjorie S. Rosenthal, MD, MPH
1:15pm
Drowning Mortality in the United States, 1999–2006
Sana Muazzam, MSc and Muazzam Nasrullah, MD, MPH
  
1:35pm
Fetal effects of anticonvulsant polytherapy exposure: Different risks from different drug combinations
Lewis Holmes, MD and Aileen Shen
  
Discussion

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Epidemiology

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Epidemiology
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