Tracking vaccine-safety inquiries to detect signals and monitor public concerns

Pediatrics

Volumn 127, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Miller, Elaine ^a   Batten, Brigid ^b   Hampton, Lee ^c   Campbell, Scott R ^a   Gao, Jinrong ^d,e   Iskander, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e SAIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Public inquiries; Vaccine adverse events; Vaccine safety

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; DEATH; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INJECTION SITE CELLULITIS; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LIMB SWELLING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SERUM SICKNESS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VACCINES;

EID: 79955507511     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1722M     Document Type: Article

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