Study type

Study topic

Disease /health condition
Human medicinal product

Study type

Non-interventional study
Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Assessment of risk minimisation measure implementation or effectiveness
Drug utilisation
Safety study (incl. comparative)

Data collection methods

Secondary data collection

Non-interventional study design

Case-control
Cohort
Study drug and medical condition

Study drug International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name

STRONTIUM RANELATE

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) code

100000097127
strontium ranelate

Medical condition to be studied

Osteoporosis
Population studied

Short description of the study population

All osteoporosis patients that are registered for at least one year with one of the participating databases during the study period who are strontium ranelate users and new oral bisphosphonates users (BP).

Age groups

Adults (46 to < 65 years)
Adults (65 to < 75 years)
Adults (75 to < 85 years)
Adults (85 years and over)

Special population of interest

Other

Special population of interest, other

Osteoporosis patients

Estimated number of subjects

100000
Study design details

Main study objective

Effectiveness of RMM:Characterize utilization patterns of SREstimate the prevalence of CI in SR users Calculate the prevalence of SR users who fulfill the new indicationsSafety:Estimate incidence rates of cardiac and thromboembolic events in SR users with and without CICompare the risk of cardiac an

Outcomes

Contraindications, new indication/prescribing conditions and safety endpoints

Data analysis plan

Effectiveness of RMM:-Incidence/prevalence of SR use, characteristics of users and patterns of use, with stratification by period (before/after implementation of RMM), age and sex.-Prevalence of CI and new indication/restrictions of use, by period, age and sex. Interrupted time series analyses will be used to assess the impact of RMM on these criteria.Safety:-Crude, as well as age and sex-specific incidence rates of the safety endpoints will be estimated separately in new users of SR and bisphosphonates (BP), stratified by period and history of CI.-Conditional logistic regression will be used in nested case-control analyses to compare the risk of the safety endpoints between current use of SR and past use and current use of BP, in persons without CI. Analyses will be stratified by period.All estimates will be calculated by databases and pooled according to a meta-analysis approach. A mega-pooled analysis will estimate the effects putting all individual data together.
Documents
Results tables
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