Vaccine Safety Datalink

Vaccine Safety Datalink

The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse side effects of vaccines.

Four large health maintenance organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, were initially recruited to provide the CDC with medical data on vaccination histories, health outcomes, and subject characteristics. The VSD database contains data compiled from surveillance on more than seven million Americans, including about 500,000 children from birth through age six years (2% of the U.S. population in this age group). [cite journal |author=Chen RT, Glasser JW, Rhodes PH, "et al" |title=Vaccine Safety Datalink project: a new tool for improving vaccine safety monitoring in the United States. The Vaccine Safety Datalink Team |journal=Pediatrics |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=765–73 |year=1997 |pmid=9164767 |doi=]

The VSD data-sharing program is now being administered by the National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center. The data sharing guidelines have been revised to include comments from interested groups as well as recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

Data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project have been utilized to address a number of vaccine safety concerns; examples include a study clarifying the risk of anaphylaxis after vaccine administration [cite journal |author=Bohlke K, Davis RL, Marcy SM, "et al" |title=Risk of anaphylaxis after vaccination of children and adolescents |journal=Pediatrics |volume=112 |issue=4 |pages=815–20 |year=2003 |pmid=14523172 |doi=] and several studies examining the rejected hypothesis of a link between vaccines and autism. [cite journal |url=http://www.a-champ.org/documents/geier%20Early%20Downward%20Trends%20JAPS%203-1-06.pdf |format=PDF |title=Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines |author= Geier DA, Geier MR |journal=Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons |volume= 11 |issue= 1 |date= Spring, 2006] [cite journal |author=Verstraeten T, Davis RL, DeStefano F, "et al" |title=Safety of thimerosal-containing vaccines: a two-phased study of computerized health maintenance organization databases |journal=Pediatrics |volume=112 |issue=5 |pages=1039–48 |year=2003 |pmid=14595043 |doi=] [cite journal |author=Thompson WW, Price C, Goodson B, "et al" |title=Early thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=357 |issue=13 |pages=1281–92 |year=2007 |pmid=17898097 |doi=10.1056/NEJMoa071434]

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External links

* [http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/vsd/default.htm CDC.gov] - 'Vaccine Safety Data-Sharing Process', Centers for Disease Control
* [http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309095913?OpenDocument NationalAcademies.org] - 'Independent Oversight of Vaccine Safety Data Program Needed To Ensure Greater Transparency and Enhance Public Trust', National Academies (February 17, 2005)
* [http://www.who.int/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue2/bu0338.pdf&e=9797 WHO.int (pdf)] - 'The Vaccine Safety Datalink: immunization research in health maintenance organizations in the USA', R.T. Chen, F. DeStefano, R.L. Davis, L.A. Jackson, R.S. Thompson, J.P. Mullooly, S.B. Black, H.R. Shinefield, C.M. Vadheim, J.I. Ward, S.M. Marcy & the Vaccine Safety Datalink Team, World Health Organization


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