Claims-Based Definition of Death in Japanese Claims Database: Validity and Implications

• Nobuhiro Ooba,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Soko Setoguchi,

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Takashi Ando,

  Affiliation Division of Evaluation and Analysis of Drug Information, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tsugumichi Sato,

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Drug Safety Research Unit Japan, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takuhiro Yamaguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Miyagi, Japan

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• Mayumi Mochizuki,

  Affiliation Division of Evaluation and Analysis of Drug Information, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kiyoshi Kubota

  * E-mail: kubotape-tky@umin.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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