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In Epidemiology, cohort studies are generally thought of as being prospective, i. e., individuals in a subset of a population are classified according to their exposure to a specific factor and are then followed to determine whether a particular disease or outcome develops. In this sense, the cohort is defined as a group of individuals who share some kind of common exposure within a defined period of time. In pharmacoepidemiology, a cohort study involves a subset of a specific population in which the members share an exposure to a particular drug or type of intervention. They are followed over time with the purpose of comparing them to some unexposed control group or historical cohort to define the incidence of adverse drug events and/or measures of effectiveness of the drug or intervention. Cohort studies are useful to investigate multiple outcomes from a single exposure, e. g., a newly marketed drug.
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Creagh, T.H. (1992). The Use of Cohort Studies in Pharmacoepidemiology. In: Strom, B.L., Velo, G. (eds) Drug Epidemiology and Post-Marketing Surveillance. NATO ASI Series, vol 224. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2587-9_7
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