Etoricoxib Prescribing Patterns and Adverse Events of Interest in Primary Care in the United Kingdom (MK-0663-162 AM1)

Etoricoxib Prescribing Patterns and Adverse Events of Interest During Etoricoxib Treatment in UK Primary Care; an Updated Analysis

This postmarketing study was conducted to describe prescribing patterns for etoricoxib (ARCOXIA®) in General Practice and describe the incidence of selected adverse events recorded in the United Kingdom (UK) Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) General Practice Research Database (GPRD).

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients in the MHRA's Full Feature GPRD (FF-GPRD) who have at least one electronic outpatient prescription record for etoricoxib issued by a General Practitioner during the period (April 1, 2002 to December 31, 2015) at the date of query execution against the FF-GPRD data warehouse.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not registered in a GPRD-contributing practice that had continuously

collected data deemed to be 'up-to-standard' for research purposes from 1 April 2002 through to 31 December 2015.

• Never registered as a permanent patient of a General Practitioner in the practice
• Registration details were not acceptable (i.e. incomplete data or logically implausible dates)
• Not registered with a General Practitioner for at least 365 days before the date that the patient's first etoricoxib prescription was recorded in the GPRD