Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/11234

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Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust

(2005)

The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is a large, linked database of patient information that was developed jointly by CDC and several private managed care organizations in 1991. It includes data on vaccination histories, health outcomes, and characteristics of more than 7 million patients of eight participating health organizations. Researchers from CDC and the managed care groups have used VSD information to study whether health problems are associated with vaccinations. The subsequent VSD data sharing program was launched in 2002 to allow independent, external researchers access to information in the database.

In this report, the committee that was asked to review aspects of this program recommends that two new oversight groups are needed to ensure that the policies and procedures of the VSD and its data sharing program are implemented as fairly and openly as possible.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program

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Health and Medicine —Public Health and Prevention

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Institute of Medicine. 2005. Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11234.

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152 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-09591-4
Ebook: 978-0-309-16524-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11234

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-x
Executive Summary	1-12
1 Study Background and Contextual Issues	13-24
2 Description of the Vaccine Safety Datalink	25-32
3 The Vaccine Safety Datalink Data Sharing Program	33-75
4 The Vaccine Safety Datalink Research Process and the Release of Preliminary Findings	76-95
5 Independent Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Activities	96-103
Concluding Remarks	104-104
References	105-110
Appendix A Committee Biographies	111-114
Appendix B Glossary	115-116
Appendix C Acronyms	117-118
Appendix D Meeting One—Agenda	119-122
Appendix E Meeting Two—Agenda	123-126
Appendix F Summary of Public Submissions	127-131
Appendix G Notice and Request for Comment on Procedures and Costs for Use of the Research Data Center	132-142

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