Vaccine Safety Datalink

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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).^[1]

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^[1] and several studies finding no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.^[1][1]

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External links

• CDC.gov - 'Vaccine Safety Data-Sharing Process', Centers for Disease Control
• NationalAcademies.org - 'Independent Oversight of Vaccine Safety Data Program Needed To Ensure Greater Transparency and Enhance Public Trust', National Academies (February 17, 2005)
• 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

v • d • e Vaccines, Vaccination, Immunization, and Inoculation
Development	Adjuvants • Cancer vaccines • DNA vaccination • HIV • Live vector vaccine • Models • Timeline • Trial
Administration	ACIP • GAVI • VAERS • Vaccine court • Vaccine injury • Policy • Schedule • VSD
Live vaccines	Anthrax • BCG • Flu • MMR • MMRV • Polio(OPV) • Smallpox • Varicella • Yellow fever
Inactivated/toxoid vaccines	inactivated virus: Flu • HAV • Polio(IPV) •• inactivated bacteria/toxoid: DTwP •• conjugate: Hib • PCV
Other vaccines	subunit: Anthrax • DTaP • HPV •• recombinant DNA: HBV •• other: Anthrax • PPV
Controversy	General • A-CHAMP • MMR • NCVIA • Pox party • Safe Minds • Thiomersal
See also	List of vaccine topics • Epidemiology

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