These parameters included demographics, clinical and laboratory data, as well as medical and medication histories.
Detailed information on medical and medication histories, and other lifestyle factors was collected through in-person interviews.
Briefly, details of socio-economic status, along with medical and medication histories were collected by questionnaires, and standardized clinical measure procedures were undertaken.
Similarly, 17 of the BSL results were also excluded from analysis because of the subjects' medical (diabetes) and medication histories (oral/i.v. corticosteroids and i.v. fluid infusion).
Chart abstractions were performed in order to obtain medical histories, detailed medication histories, laboratory histories, and information regarding inpatient care at time of initial event.
The nature of reports was considered in relation to trial eligibility for medical and concomitant medication histories, and severity for AEs.
Medical, family, and medication histories were obtained, and clinical assessments (e.g., CLASI and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index, or SLEDAI) performed at the study visit were collected.
Data were obtained from the academic internal medicine clinic's electronic medical record (EPIC) and relied upon the patients' problem lists, past medical histories, and past medication histories.
We interviewed a subset of case-patients to confirm and expand information available from medical records pertaining to previous inpatient healthcare exposures and medication histories.
Pharmacists were not routinely involved in documenting patients' admission medication histories; this function is primarily the admitting resident doctor or medical student's responsibility at the institutions involved in the present study.
Medication histories of the patients were obtained by retrospective review of their medical records.
