13 Sentinel Mother-Infant Identification Package

This documentation describes Sentinel Mother-Infant Identification Package 2.0.0. The purpose of the Mother-Infant Identification Package is to identify deliveries of live born infants to mothers and to identify infants. It will create files that will be used by the Data Partner to link deliveries and infants in order to create a Sentinel Mother-Infant Linkage Table. Specifically, this program will identify women delivering an infant from one year after a Data Partner’s Sentinel Distributed Database start date through the end date of the Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD) and children with birth dates during this time period. Aggregate data only will be sent back to the Sentinel Operations Center (SOC).

Table 13.1 describes the history of modifications to this package.

Table 13.1: Modification History

Version	Date	Modification	Author
1.2.0	11/18/2022	Bug fix to correct an error which resulted in the exclusion of Mothers and Infants whose race was marked as M Bug fix to allow package to correctly handle BIRTH_TYPE = 6	Sentinel Operations Center
1.1.1	11/9/2020	Bug fix to correct yearmonth formatting in infants aggregation dataset	Sentinel Operations Center
1.1.0	9/01/2020	Updated for compliance with Sentinel Common Data Model v8.0.0	Sentinel Operations Center
1.0.4	2/29/2020	Addition of stratification for yearmonth in deliveries_counts and infants_counts aggregate datasets	Sentinel Operations Center
1.0.3	1/25/2018	Bug fix	Sentinel Operations Center
1.0.2	1/25/2018	Bug fix	Sentinel Operations Center
1.0.1	1/25/2018	Bug fix	Sentinel Operations Center
1.0.0	1/25/2018	Version submitted for public posting	Sentinel Operations Center

Disclosure

The Sentinel System is sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proactively monitor the safety of FDA-regulated medical products and complements other existing FDA safety surveillance capabilities. The Sentinel System is one piece of FDA's Sentinel Initiative, a long-term, multi-faceted effort to develop a national electronic system. Sentinel Collaborators include Data and Academic Partners that provide access to healthcare data and ongoing scientific, technical, methodological, and organizational expertise. The Sentinel Operations Center is funded by the FDA through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Task order 75F40119D10037.