Vaccine Safety Forum: Summaries of Two Workshops (Compass Series) - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Board On Health Promotion And Disease Prevention

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309057914 ISBN 13: 9780309057912

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1997

Synopsis

On November 6, 1995, the Institute of Medicine's Vaccine Safety Forum convened a workshop on detecting and responding to adverse events following vaccination. Workshop speakers and participants discussed the difficulties in detecting adverse events, current adverse events detection and response methods and procedures, suggestions for improving the means of detecting and responding to adverse events following vaccination, and future areas of research. This document represents a summary of that workshop.

Table of Contents

• FRONT MATTER
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
• DIFFICULTIES IN DETECTING ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING VACCINATION
• CURRENT ADVERSE EVENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE PROCEDURES
• IMPROVING DETECTION OF AND RESPONSE TO ADVERSE EVENTS
• ADDITIONAL AREAS FOR RESEARCH
• REFERENCES
• WORKSHOP AGENDA
• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• INTRODUCTION
• IMMUNE RESPONSE TO VACCINE ANTIGENS
• GENETIC FACTORS AFFECTING DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOIMMUNITY
• RESEARCH ON IDENTIFYING POPULATIONS AT RISK FOR ADVERSE EVENTS
• RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
• REFERENCES
• WORKSHOP AGENDA

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0309057914
• ISBN 13: 9780309057912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72