Using electronic medical records to enhance detection and reporting of vaccine adverse events.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
; 14(6): 731-5, 2007.
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ABSTRACT
We implemented an automated vaccine adverse event surveillance and reporting system based in an ambulatory electronic medical record to improve underreporting and incomplete reporting that prevails in spontaneous systems. This automated system flags potential vaccine adverse events for the clinician when a diagnosis is entered, prompts clinicians to consider the vaccine as a cause of the condition, and facilitates reporting of suspected adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). During five months, a total of 33,420 vaccinations were administered during 14,466 encounters. There were 5,914 follow-up contacts by vaccinees within 14 days of the vaccination visits; 686 (11.6%) generated an alert. Clinicians submitted VAERS reports for 23 of these (0.69 per 1,000 vaccine doses), which is almost 6 times the dose-based reporting rate to VAERS. (1) Clinician surveys indicated that it took a minimal amount of time to respond to the alerts. Of those who felt that an alert corresponded to an actual vaccine adverse event, the majority used the reporting feature to file a VAERS report. We believe that elicited surveillance via real time prompts to clinicians holds substantial promise. By coupling simplified reporting with the initial prompt, clinicians can consider and report a vaccine adverse event electronically in a few moments during the office visit.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Vacunas
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Sistemas de Registros Médicos Computarizados
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Sistemas de Registro de Reacción Adversa a Medicamentos
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Am Med Inform Assoc
Asunto de la revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Año:
2007
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos