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Jan 2023
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Uppsala Reports Long Reads – Unmasking d...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
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Send us a voicemail! Most pharmacovigilance professionals will have heard of masking – a statistical issue where reports for one drug hide signals for other drugs. But the problem gained fresh attention when record amounts of reports began piling up for the COVID-19 vaccines. How should we be unmasking data in the COVID-19 vaccine era? This episode is part ... Show More
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