Valproate in pregnancy: authors’ reply: Reply to comment on: Use of valproate in pregnancy and in women of childbearing age between 2014 and 2018 in Switzerland: a retrospective analysis of Swiss healthcare claims data

Julia Spoendlin; Eva Blozik; Sereina M. Graber; Marlene Rauch; Carole A. Marxer; Stephan Rüegg; Christoph Meier; Ursula Winterfeld; Alice Panchaud

doi:10.4414/smw.2021.20481

Author reply to technical comment

Vol. 151 No. 0708 (2021)

Valproate in pregnancy: authors’ reply: Reply to comment on: Use of valproate in pregnancy and in women of childbearing age between 2014 and 2018 in Switzerland: a retrospective analysis of Swiss healthcare claims data

Julia Spoendlin⁺⁻
Eva Blozik⁺⁻
Sereina M. Graber⁺⁻
Marlene Rauch⁺⁻
Carole A. Marxer⁺⁻
Stephan Rüegg⁺⁻
Christoph Meier⁺⁻
Ursula Winterfeld⁺⁻
Alice Panchaud⁺⁻

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20481
Published: 19.02.2021

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[1] Hösli I, von Mandach U. Valproate in pregnancy: comment from the SAPP. Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20746. doi:https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2021.20746

[2] Tomson T, Battino D, Craig J, Hernandez-Diaz S, Holmes LB, Lindhout D, et al.; ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies. Pregnancy registries: differences, similarities, and possible harmonization. Epilepsia. 2010;51(5):909–15. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02525.x

[3] Copenhagen Healtech Cluster. The Medical Birth Registry. Published 2021. Accessed 2021 January 28. Available from: https://www.danishhealthdata.com/find-health-data/Det-Medicinske-foedselsregister

[4] Margulis AV, Palmsten K, Andrade SE, Charlton RA, Hardy JR, Cooper WO, et al. Beginning and duration of pregnancy in automated health care databases: review of estimation methods and validation results. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2015;24(4):335–42. Published online 2015. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.3743

[5] Margulis AV, Setoguchi S, Mittleman MA, Glynn RJ, Dormuth CR, Hernández-Díaz S. Algorithms to estimate the beginning of pregnancy in administrative databases. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013;22(1):16–24. Published online 2013. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.3284

[6] Matcho A, Ryan P, Fife D, Gifkins D, Knoll C, Friedman A. Inferring pregnancy episodes and outcomes within a network of observational databases. PLoS One. 2018;13(2):e0192033. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192033

[7] Ailes EC, Simeone RM, Dawson AL, Petersen EE, Gilboa SM. Using insurance claims data to identify and estimate critical periods in pregnancy: An application to antidepressants. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2016;106(11):927–34. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1002/bdra.23573

[8] Patorno E, Huybrechts KF, Bateman BT, Cohen JM, Desai RJ, Mogun H, et al. Lithium Use in Pregnancy and the Risk of Cardiac Malformations. N Engl J Med. 2017;376(23):2245–54. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1612222