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Emergency department diagnosis code data for surveillance of vaccine adverse events: comparison with the national vaccine adverse event reporting system
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Nationally, vaccine safety is monitored through several systems including Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a passive reporting system designed to detect potential vaccine safety concerns. Healthcare providers … read more… to match reports that indicated that the patient had visited either an ED, or physician’s office to ED visits with diagnosis codes possibly related to influenza … 2009–31 January 2010, 100 indicated that the patient visited the ED or a physician’s office. Of these, only 8% …