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Assessing medical product safety during pregnancy using parameterizable tools in the sentinel distributed database

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The US Food and Drug Administration established the Sentinel System to monitor the safety of medical products. A component of this system includes parameterizable analytic tools to identify mother‐infant pairs… Click to show full abstract

The US Food and Drug Administration established the Sentinel System to monitor the safety of medical products. A component of this system includes parameterizable analytic tools to identify mother‐infant pairs and evaluate infant outcomes to enable the routine monitoring of the utilization and safety of drugs used in pregnancy. We assessed the feasibility of using the data and tools in the Sentinel System by assessing a known association between topiramate use during pregnancy and oral clefts in the infant.

Keywords: tools sentinel; safety; product safety; pregnancy; medical product; assessing medical

Journal Title: Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
Year Published: 2022

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