Abstract

Reporting Exposure-Adjusted Incidence Rate (EAIR) can be part of an Integrated Summary of Safety (ISS) submission since the regulatory agency can be interested on the drug exposure duration of the subjects until a certain adverse event (AE) occurred. The programming however, can be a challenging task, especially since the subject population in an ISS is huge and various AE categories must be reported. The adverse events analysis dataset (ADAE) can be used directly to report results in your table utilizing a macro, or alternatively a time to event analysis dataset (ADTTE) can be additionally created to facilitate easy reporting of the EAIR. This paper will talk about how to setup ADAE and ADTTE to support the EAIR analysis and why this approach is more efficient as compared to deriving EAIR at the level of table generation. Furthermore, some challenges related to integrated database development and reporting, such as huge dataset processing impacting program run times, inconsistent availability of information between individual studies resulting to more complex variable derivations and the laborious validation of analysis results against previously available reports of the individual studies, will be discussed alongside with tips and best practices to overcome these challenges effectively.