Prevention and monitoring of adverse events following immunization: The "Green Channel" of the Veneto region in Italy

Vaccine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 194-201

  Zanoni, G ^a   Nguyen, T M D ^a,b   Valsecchi, M ^b   Gallo, G ^c   Tridente, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Department of Health and Safety at Work (SPISAL)   (Italy)

^c Regional Health Authority   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Immunization; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACELLULAR VACCINE; BCG VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATAXIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN DISEASE; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING DISORDER; CHICKENPOX; CHRONIC URTICARIA; COLLAPSE; CONFUSION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CRYING; CYANOSIS; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAINTNESS; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOTTIS EDEMA; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPEREMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INJECTION SITE; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; ITALY; JAUNDICE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MEASLES; MENINGISM; MIGRAINE; MUMPS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; MYELITIS; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PALLOR; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PAROTITIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PETECHIA; PHARYNGEAL HYPEREMIA; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PRURITUS; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; SERUM SICKNESS; SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOMNOLENCE; STRABISMUS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TETANUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREMOR; TUBERCULOSIS; URTICARIA; VACCINATION; VASCULITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 0242543135     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(03)00566-8     Document Type: Article

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