•Epidemiologic
studies
- Ingenix
UnitedHealthcare (n ~ 50,000 rheumatic disease patients):
establishing background incidence of adverse events in rheumatic
disease populations
•Continued surveillance of
facilitated post-marketing adverse event reports
-1.2
Million phone contacts in 150,000 patients
-Each
call is an opportunity for reporting
-88%
adverse event reports are patient initiated
-Half
of health care provider reports are patient initiated
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