Vaccine safety--improving monitoring.
The growing numbers of vaccines and vaccine combinations make monitoring of vaccine safety increasingly complex. At the same time, health agencies and the public request better information on the safety of vaccines. The following steps should be taken to improve monitoring of vaccine safety: bar code labelling of vaccines to improve accuracy and completeness of information on administered vaccines, establishing immunisation registers to provide numerator data on exposure to vaccines, to facilitate long term follow-up and to do linked database studies. Development of improved case definitions to increase comparability between studies. Organising systematic assessments of all information on suspect or alleged vaccine reactions.
Heijbel
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Swedish Institute of Infectious Disease Control, Building 10, S:t Lars Omradet, S-221 85, Lund, Sweden. harald.heijbel@swipnet.se
Jefferson
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D016208:Databases, Factual; D004348:Drug Labeling; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D012449:Safety; D014611:Vaccination / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014612:Vaccines / Q000009:adverse effects*
D014612:Vaccines