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Vaccine surveillance helps evaluate safety of vaccines.

Vaccine Weekly

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2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccine surveillance helps evaluate the safety of vaccines.

"In this article we discuss some of the most widely used methods of the routine vaccine safety surveillance. The main problems inherently associated with these passive techniques are also addressed. The vaccine safety surveillance in Finland is used as an example," scientists writing in the journal Vaccine report.

"Finally, we are giving a brief introduction to more advanced surveillance tools, namely record linkage and electronic vaccine registers, which are now being investigated in Finland as a part of the European Research Program for Improved Vaccine Safety Surveillance (EUSAFEVAC) project," wrote Ville Postila and Terhi Kilpi at the National Public Health Institute ...

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