Monitoring signals for vaccine safety: the assessment of individual adverse event reports by an expert advisory committee

Monitoring vaccine safety is a complex and shared responsibility. It can be carried out in many ways, one of which is the reporting of individual cases of adverse reactions thought to be due to vaccination. The task is difficult because ascribing causality to an individual case report is fraught wit...

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Main Authors: J.-P. Collet, N. MacDonald, N. Cashman, R. Pless
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2000-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000200005&lng=en&tlng=en