Utilization of Beta Blockers in the Pediatric Population: An Updated Descriptive Analysis

In this request, we examined counts of individuals with a beta blocker dispensing of interest among the pediatric population in the Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD). This request is a follow up to a previous analysis to add additional stratified analyses. This request contains three reports:

• Report 1: contains counts of individuals among the pediatric population with evidence of a new beta blocker dispensing.
• Report 2: contains counts of individuals among the pediatric population without requiring evidence that a beta blocker dispensing be new.
• Report 3: contains counts of individuals among the pediatric population with evidence of a new beta blocker prescription.

The study period includes data from January 1, 2008 through May 31, 2022. We distributed this request to eight Sentinel Data Partners on September 27, 2022.