“From the very beginning, Sentinel’s success has been a function of the dynamic and mutually affirming public-private partnership between FDA and the scientific community. From the very first Data Partners who raised their hands to contribute their data to the nation’s first national active drug safety surveillance system, to all the academic partners who developed the initial versions of the common data model and causal inference tools - partnerships have been essential to Sentinel’s success.”
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Methods, Data, & Tools
Explore Sentinel ToolsExplore the publicly available analytic tools and technical documentation in the Sentinel Git repository.
Routine Querying System
Version 12.2.2
Sentinel routine querying tools are SAS programs designed to run against the Sentinel Common Data Model. They allow rapid implementation of standard queries across the Sentinel Distributed Database.
Data Quality Review and Characterization Programs
Version 8.5.0
Data Quality Review and Characterization Programs help researchers understand the data quality checks conducted in Sentinel. The programs do this by characterizing the data that Data Partners create using the Sentinel Common Data Model rules.
Sentinel Common Data Model
Versions 8.0.0 and 8.1.0
The Sentinel Common Data Model helps researchers understand what data are available. The Sentinel Common Data Model is a standard data structure that allows Data Partners to quickly execute distributed programs against local data.
SAS Code for Transforming the Merative™ MarketScan® Research Databases (MarketScan) into the Sentinel Common Data Model
Sentinel and Merative™ partnered together to make SAS code available for transforming the Merative™ MarketScan® Commercial and Medicare Databases into the Sentinel Common Data Model.
Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims in Sentinel Common Data Model Format
This code pack helps researchers create a Sentinel Common Data Model-compliant version of the Medicare data within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s (CMS) Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC). The Sentinel CMS DataMart contains 100% Medicare fee-for-service administrative claims data housed in the CMS VRDC.
Sentinel Query Builder Standalone Application
Version 2.2.0
The Sentinel Query Builder is a web application that allows users to visualize, draft, and create medical product utilization queries. The Sentinel Query Builder allows researchers to do this from a set of pre-defined parameters and convert them into Sentinel query request packages (executable SAS code).
Medicare Claims Synthetic Public Use Files in Sentinel Common Data Model Format Common Data Model
The CMS 2008-2010 Data Entrepreneurs’ Synthetic Public Use Files (SynPUFs) provide researchers a large data set for analysis, based on a 5% sample of the entire CMS fee-for-service population from 2008-2010. Researchers can run Sentinel's tools on this synthetic data to understand the tools’ capabilities.
Routine Querying System Reporting Tool
Version 2.2.0
The Sentinel Routine Querying System Reporting Tool is a SAS program designed to run against the output of the Sentinel routine querying tools. The reporting tool allows uses to aggregate across multiple Data Partner sites, create formatted reports, and generate effect estimates for standard queries.
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