title: Vaccination in the primary care setting: when is it safe to proceed?
abstract: Primary care practitioners play an important role in administering and advocating vaccinations against vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and ensuring herd immunity in our population. This is a follow-up article to an earlier one which dealt with the principles of vaccine scheduling and administration. This article describes several false contraindications to vaccination that a primary care practitioner may encounter, including pregnancy, current breastfeeding, history of febrile seizures, and having immunosuppressed or pregnant household contacts. We aimed to provide a guide for safe and timely vaccine administration in the primary care setting.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine, SingHealth Polyclinics, Singapore.
authors.forename: Hui Lee Sharon
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Ngoh
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine, SingHealth Polyclinics, Singapore.
authors.forename: Mark Chung Wai
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011634:Public Health; D012449:Safety; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
keywords: false contraindication; primary care; vaccination
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