Sentinel Modular Program for Propensity-Score Matched Cohort Analyses: Application to Glyburide, Glipizide, and Serious Hypoglycemia.

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Sentinel is a program sponsored by the US Food and Drug Administration to monitor the safety of medical products. We conducted a cohort assessment to evaluate the ability of the Sentinel Propensity Score Matching Tool to reproduce in an expedited fashion the known association between glyburide (versus glipizide) and serious hypoglycemia. Thirteen data partners that contribute to the Sentinel Distributed Database participated in this analysis. A pre-tested and customizable analytic program was run at each individual site. De-identified summary results from each Data Partner were returned and aggregated at the Sentinel Operations Center. We identified a total of 198,550 and 379,507 new users of glyburide and glipizide, respectively. The incidence of emergency department visits and hospital admissions for serious hypoglycemia was 19 per 1,000 person-years (95% confidence interval, 17.9, 19.7) for glyburide users and 22 (21.6, 22.7) for glipizide users. In cohorts matched by propensity score based on predefined variables, the hazard ratio (HR) for glyburide was 1.36 (1.24, 1.49) vs. glipizide. In cohorts matched on a high-dimensional propensity score based on empirically selected variables, for which the program ran to completion in five data partners, the HR was 1.49 (1.31, 1.70). In cohorts matched on propensity scores based on both pre-defined and empirically selected variables via the high-dimensional propensity score algorithm (the same five data partners), the HR was 1.51 (1.32, 1.71). These findings are consistent with the literature, and demonstrate the ability of the Sentinel Propensity Score Matching Tool to reproduce this known association in an expedited fashion. 3.

Abbreviation
Epidemiology
Publication Date
2017-07-04
Pubmed ID
28682851
Medium
Print-Electronic
Full Title
Sentinel Modular Program for Propensity-Score Matched Cohort Analyses: Application to Glyburide, Glipizide, and Serious Hypoglycemia.
Authors
Zhou M, Wang SV, Leonard CE, Gagne JJ, Fuller C, Hampp C, Archdeacon P, Toh S, Iyer A, Woodworth TS, Cavagnaro E, Panozzo CA, Axtman S, Carnahan RM, Chrischilles EA, Hennessy S