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Vaccine Safety > VSD
Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project
Publications & Presentations
December 2000

Links to topics on this page:
Vaccine Safety
Vaccine coverage
Disease Incidence
Methodology
Cost-Effectiveness


Vaccine safety

Black S, Shinefield H, Ray P, Lewis E, Chen R, Glasser J et al. Risk of Hospitalization Because of Aseptic Meningitis after Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination in One-to-Two-Year-Old Children: An Analysis of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project. Pediatric Infect Dis J 1997;16:500-3.

Davis RL, Marcuse E, Black S, Lewis E, Chen R, et al. MMMR2 at 4-5 Years and 10-11 Years of Age. A Comparison of Adverse Event Rates in The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project. Pediatrics 1997;100:767-771.

Jackson LA, Benson P, Sneller VP, Butler JC, Thompson RS, Chen RT, Lewis LS, Carlone G, DeStefano F, Holder P, Lezhava T, Williams WW. Safety of revaccination with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. JAMA 1999;281:243-8.

Kramarz P, DeStefano F, Gargiullo P, Davis RL, Chen RT, Mullooly JM, Black SB, Shinefield HR, Bohlke K, Ward JI, Marcy MM. Does influenza vaccination exacerbate asthma? Arch Fam Med 2000;9:617-23.

Niu MT, Rhodes P, Salive M, Chen RT, Shinefield H, et al. Comparative Safety of Two Recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccines In Children: Data From The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). J Clin Epidemiol 1998;51:503-510.

Ray P, Black S, Shinefield H, et al. Risk of chronic arthropathy among women after rubella vaccination. JAMA 1997;278:551-6.

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Vaccine coverage

Davis RL; Rubanowice D; Shinefield HR; Lewis N; Gu D; Black SB; DeStefano F; Gargiullo P; Mullooly JP; Thompson RS; Chen RT. Immunization levels among premature and low-birth-weight infants and risk factors for delayed up-to-date immunization status. JAMA 1999;282:547_53.

Davis RL, Mell LK, Zavitokovsky A, Thompson RS, Lieu TA, et al. Impact of the sequential IPV/OPV schedule on vaccination coverage levels — United States, 1997. MMWR 1998;47:1017-9.

Davis RL et al Immunization levels among premature and low-birth-weight infants and risk factors for delayed up-to-date immunization status.  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 1998, 47:1017-1019.

Kramarz P, DeStefano F, Gargiullo P, Davis RL, Chen RT, Mullooly JM, Black SB, Bohlke K, Ward JI, Marcy MM, Okoro CA. Influenza vaccination in children with asthma in Health Maintenance Organizations. Vaccines 2000;18:2288-94.

Lieu TA et al.  Risk factors for delayed immunization among children in a health maintenance organization.  American Journal of Public Health, 1994, 84:1621-1625.

Lieu TA et al. Would better adherence to guidelines improve childhood immunization rates? Pediatrics, 1996, 98:1062-1068.

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Disease Incidence

Belay ED, Holman RC, Clarke MJ, DeStefano F, et al. The incidence of Kawasaki syndrome in West Coast health maintenance organizations. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2000;19:828-32.

Izurieta H, Thompson WW, Kramarz P, Shay DK, Davis RL, DeStefano F, Black S, Shinefield H, Fukuda K. Impact of influenza on the rates of respiratory disease hospitalizations among young children. N Engl J Med 2000;342:232-9.

Parashar UD et al. Epidemiology of diarrheal disease among children enrolled in four West Coast health maintenance organizations.  Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1998, 17: 605-611.

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Methodology

Barlow W. Measurement of interrater agreement with adjustment for covariates.  Biomentrics, 1996, 52:695-1162.

Barlow WE. Global measures of local influence for proportional hazards regression models.  Biometrics, 1997, 53:1157-1162.

Chen RT, Glasser J, Rhodes P, et al. The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project: A New Tool for Improving Vaccine Safety Monitoring in the United States. Pediatrics 1997;99:765-73.

Chen, RT, DeStefano, F, Davis, RL, Jackson, LA, et al. The Vaccine Safety Datalink: immunization research in health maintenance organizations in the USA.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000; 78(2):186-194.

Davis RL et al. Utility of immunization tracking systems for self-assessment, improvement, research and evaluation, and linkage with statewide networks: experience of the CDC Vaccine Safety Datalink sites.  HMO Practice, 1997, 11: 13-17.

Mullooly J, Drew L, DeStefano F, et al. Quality of HMO vaccination databases used to monitor childhood vaccine safety. Am J Epidemiol 1999;149:186-94.

Mullooly JP. Misclassification Model for Person-Time Analysis of Automated Medical Care Databases. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144: 782-92.

Wassilak SGF, Glasser JW, Chen RT, Hadler SC, and Vaccine Safety Datalink Investigators. Utility of Large-linked Databases In Vaccine Safety, Particularly In Distinguishing Independent and Synergistic Effects. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1995;754:377-82.

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Cost-effectiveness

Lieu TA et al. Computer-generated recall letters for underimmunized children: how cost effective?  Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1997, 16: 28-33.

Lieu TA et al.  Varicella serology among school age children with a negative or uncertain history of chickenpox.  Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1998, 17: 120-125.

Lieu TA et al.  Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of letters, automated telephone messages, or both for underimmunized children in a health maintenance organization.  Pediatrics, 1998, 101(4): E3.

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