Established
Safety Surveillance for Smallpox Vaccine
Objectives
for Safety Monitoring (22:V7:2)
According
to the World Health Organization’s guidelines on immunization
safety monitoring, the major goal of immunization safety monitoring
is early detection and appropriate quick response to adverse events
in order to lessen the negative impact on the health of individuals
and on the immunization program.
Potential objectives
of immunization safety surveillance include:
- Detecting,
correcting, and preventing program errors.
- Identifying
usually high rates or types of adverse events associated with
specific vaccine lots or brands.
- Ensuring
that coincidental events are not falsely blamed on immunization.
- Maintaining
confidence in the immunization program and properly responding
to community concerns about immunization safety while increasing
awareness about vaccine risks.
- Generating
new hypotheses about vaccine reactions that are specific to the
population.
- Estimating
adverse event rates in the population compared with trial and
international data.
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