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Reporting Vaccine Complications : What Do Obstetricians and Gynecologists Know About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System?
Joint Authors
Schulkin, Jay
Eckert, L. O.
Anderson, Britta L.
Gonik, B.
Source
Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-09-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
Obstetrician-gynecologists are increasingly called upon to be vaccinators as an essential part of a woman’s primary and preventive health care.
Despite the established safety of vaccines, vaccine adverse events may occur.
A national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a well-established mechanism to track adverse events.
However, we hypothesized that many obstetrician-gynecologists are naive to the role and use of VAERS.
Methods.
We devised a ten-question survey to a sample of ACOG fellows to assess their knowledge and understanding of VAERS.
We performed descriptive and frequency analysis for each of the questions and used one-way analysis of variance for continuous and chi-squared for categorical variables.
Results.
Of the 1000 fellows who received the survey, 377 responded.
Only one respondent answered all nine knowledge questions correctly, and 9.2% of physicians had used VAERS.
Older physicians were less familiar with VAERS in general and with the specific objectives of VAERS in particular (χ2=10.7,P=.005).
Conclusions.
Obstetrician-gynecologist familiarity with VAERS is lacking.
Only when the obstetrician-gynecologist is completely knowledgeable regarding standard vaccine practices, including the availability and use of programs such as VAERS, will providers be functioning as competent and complete vaccinators.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Eckert, L. O.& Anderson, Britta L.& Gonik, B.& Schulkin, Jay. 2013. Reporting Vaccine Complications : What Do Obstetricians and Gynecologists Know About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System?. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Eckert, L. O.…[et al.]. Reporting Vaccine Complications : What Do Obstetricians and Gynecologists Know About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System?. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Eckert, L. O.& Anderson, Britta L.& Gonik, B.& Schulkin, Jay. Reporting Vaccine Complications : What Do Obstetricians and Gynecologists Know About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System?. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-460357
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-460357