Dr. Bianca Kollhorst
- Department: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Unit: Statistical Modeling of Secondary and Registry Data
- 2003-2008: studies mathematics/diploma, University Oldenburg
- 2008: diploma mathematics
- 2008-2010: statistician at SCIderm GmbH Hamburg
- Since December 2010: BIPS: research associate
- Since October 2015: Head of Statistical Modeling of Secondary and Registry Data unit
- Health effects of cardiac fluoroscopy and modern radiotherapy in paediatrics
- Linking cancer registry data and health insurance data: Investigation of the acceptance by cancer patients and of the potential to describe courses of therapy and to use AI for quality control (KUKUK)
- PAS-study for galcanezumab
- Prescription behavior of HIV therapeutics in women of childbearing age and during pregnancy in Germany
Selected BIPS-Publications
Articles with peer review
- Pigeot I, Intemann T, Kollhorst B, Sax U, Ahrens W. FAIRifizierung von Real World Data für die Gesundheitsforschung - Ein Petitum für modernes Record Linkage. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung. 2025;
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-022-00973-x - Haug U, Kollhorst B, Schink T, Thöne K, Dathe K, Schaefer C, Onken M. Investigating drug safety in pregnancy based on the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD): A proof-of-concept analysis on the association between valproate and spina bifida. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2023;32(2):148-157.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.5573 - Kollhorst B, Reinders T, Grill S, Eberle A, Intemann T, Kieschke J, Meyer M, Nennecke A, Rathmann W, Pigeot I. Record linkage of claims and cancer registries data - Evaluation of a deterministic linkage approach based on indirect personal identifiers. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2022;31(12):1287-1293.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.5545 - Pigeot I, Bongaerts B, Eberle A, Katalinic A, Kieschke J, Luttmann S, Meyer M, Nennecke A, Rathmann W, Stabenow R, Wilsdorf-Köhler H, Kollhorst B, Reinders T. Verknüpfung von Abrechnungsdaten gesetzlicher Krankenkassen mit Daten epidemiologischer Krebsregister: Länderspezifische Möglichkeiten und Limitationen. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz. 2022;65(5):615-623.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-021-03475-x - Börnhorst C, Reinders T, Rathmann W, Bongaerts B, Haug U, Didelez V, Kollhorst B. Avoiding time-related biases: A feasibility study on antidiabetic drugs and pancreatic cancer applying the parametric g-formula to a large German healthcare database. Clinical Epidemiology. 2021;(13):1027-1038.
https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S328342 - March S, Antoni M, Kieschke J, Kollhorst B, Maier B, Müller G, Sariyar M, Schulz M, Swart E, Zeidler J, Hoffmann F. Quo vadis Datenlinkage in Deutschland? Eine erste Bestandsaufnahme. Das Gesundheitswesen. 2018;80(3):e20-e31.
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-125070 - Arfè A, Scotti L, Varas-Lorenzo C, Nicotra F, Zambon A, Kollhorst B, Schink T, Garbe E, Herings R, Straatman H, Schade R, Villa M, Lucchi S, Valkhoff VE, Romio S, Thiessard F, Schuemie M, Pariente A, Sturkenboom MCJM, Corrao G, on behalf of the SOS project consortium. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of heart failure in four European countries: Nested case-control study. The BMJ. 2016;354:i4857.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i4857 - Douros A, Jobski K, Kollhorst B, Schink T, Garbe E. Risk of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients treated with epoetins or blood transfusions. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2016;82(3):839-848.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.13019
https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl%3A6416349 - Enders D, Kollhorst B, Engel S, Linder R, Verheyen F, Pigeot I. Comparative risk for cardiovascular diseases of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors vs. sulfonylureas in combination with metformin: Results of a two-phase study. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications. 2016;30(7):1339-1346.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2016.05.015 - Kollhorst B, Abrahamowicz M, Pigeot I. The proportion of all previous patients was a potential instrument for patients' actual prescriptions of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2016;69:96-106.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.08.008
https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl%3A6417553 - Schmedt N, Jobski K, Kollhorst B, Krappweis J, Schink T, Rüther E, Garbe E. Treatment patterns and characteristics of older antipsychotic users in Germany. International Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2016;31(3):159-169.
https://doi.org/10.1097/YIC.0000000000000119 - Schmedt N, Kollhorst B, Enders D, Jobski K, Krappweis J, Garbe E, Schink T. Comparative risk of death in older adults treated with antipsychotics: A population-based cohort study. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016;26(9):1390-1400.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.07.006 - Jobski K, Kollhorst B, Schink T, Garbe E. The risk of opioid intoxications or related events and the effect of alcohol-related disorders: A retrospective cohort study in German patients treated with high-potency opioid analgesics. Drug Safety. 2015;38(9):811-822.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-015-0312-x PhD-Theses
- Kollhorst B. Controlling for unobserved confounders in observational studies using large health care databases by means of instrumental variables in time-to-event analysis. Bremen: Universität Bremen; 2017.
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105848-17 Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences
- Kollhorst B, Abrahamowicz M, Pigeot I. Evaluation of the two-stage residual inclusion method for instrumental variable estimation in survival analysis: A simulation study. Dublin, Ireland. 2016.
- Kollhorst B, Garbe E, Pigeot I. Application of instrumental variable analysis to administrative data of statutory health insurances: Potential and limitations. Bremen. 2014.
- Kollhorst B, Schink T, Arfè A, Herings R, Lucchi S, Nicotra F, Romio S, Schade R, Schuemie M, Straatman H, Thiessard F, Valkhoff VE, Villa M, Varas-Lorenzo C, Sturkenboom MCJM, Garbe E. Risk of ischemic stroke associated with the use of individual non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Barcelona, Spain. 2012.
Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences (invited)
- Pigeot I, Didelez V, Enders D, Kollhorst B. Nutzung von Sekundärdaten für die pharmakoepidemiologische Forschung: Lassen sich Limitationen der Daten durch moderne statistische Verfahren oder Datenlinkage ausgleichen. Hamburg. 2017.
Posters at scientific meetings/conferences
- Kollhorst B, Garbe E. Is the physician's preference a valid instrumental variable in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database. Montreal, Canada. 2013.
- Behr S, Kollhorst B, Dippel F-W, Garbe E. Identification of patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in insurance claims data - Are problems caused by ambiguous ICD-10 codes. Barcelona, Spain. 2012.
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