Warfarin is an anticoagulant medication that is used for the prevention and treatment of venous and arterial thrombotic complications. The evaluation of the risks associated with warfarin therapy, and its interaction with other drugs, poses important methodological challenges. In this thesis, we studied two of these risks and assessed techniques to address these methodological challenges using data from the United Kingdom's General Practice Research Database (GPRD). First, we conducted a case-control study to examine the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding associated with warfarin use. We identified 4028 cases and 40171 matched controls from 2000 through ...