Monitoring vaccine safety using case series cumulative sum charts

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 5358-5367

  Musonda, Patrick ^a,b   Hocine, Mounia N ^a   Andrews, Nick J ^c   Tubert Bitter, Pascale ^d   Farrington, C Paddy ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c National Infections Surveillance Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Average run length; CUSUM; Self controlled case series method; Surveillance; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CASE STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEBRILE CONVULSION; HUMAN; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; BELL PALSY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 51349117606     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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