Improving data capture of race and ethnicity for the Food and Drug Administration Sentinel database: a narrative review.

Purpose: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel System is a national medical product safety surveillance system consisting of a large multisite distributed database of administrative claims supplemented by electronic health-care record data.

Time-series analysis of recent antihyperglycemic medication prescribing trends for a diverse sample of Medicare enrollees with type 2 diabetes mellitus in an integrated health system.

Purpose: Despite high type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevalence in Medicare enrollees, newer therapeutic options, and revised treatment guidelines, little is known about US antihyperglycemic prescribing trends after 2015. This research describes recent monthly antihyperglycemic prescribing trends in a large, diverse population of Medicare enrollees from the US Mid-Atlantic region.

Methods: Encounter data (July 2018-July 2020) for Medicare enrollees 65 years of age or older with T2DM were extracted from electronic health records of a large integrated health system.