Childhood Immunization Registries

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Lazzarini, Zita

doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530220059034

Cited by 41 publications

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“…These cards ideally supplement records already at the clinic. Many locations around the world, particularly high-income countries, already use immunization information systems, 5,6 or have paper back-ups of vaccination records at the clinic. But these clinic-specific records have little utility if the child moves to a new area; even in the United States, vaccination providers are unable to automatically access vaccination records from children vaccinated previously in a separate state.…”

Section: Uses For Vaccination Providersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The use and significance of vaccination cards

Wagner

2019

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Vaccination cards are useful health records that contain information about vaccination dates and dosage. This information is helpful for parents, vaccination providers, and public health researchers. However, as they currently are structured, many vaccination cards are very difficult to read by non-experts, like parents, and even by health-care providers. Many families also lose these vaccination cards; among the top 10 countries with the most unvaccinated children, the proportion of families who were able to find their vaccination cards and give them to researchers was low, ranging from 20.7% in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 69.2% in South Africa. Moreover, some families report that not having a vaccination card during a vaccination visit resulted in them being unable to obtain a vaccine (8% in one study in Ethiopia and 16% in one study in Bangladesh). This commentary provides recommendations about how vaccination cards should be used by parents, health-care providers, and researchers, and comments on their continued relevance in an era with increased use of electronic registries.

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Section: Uses For Vaccination Providersmentioning

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The use and significance of vaccination cards

Wagner

2019

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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“…20 Gostin, writing from the US -a country in which privacy rights are much better developed -has noted the capacity of modern technology to establish a 'comprehensive genetic information system'. 21 Indeed, this is precisely what is apparently envisaged by the UK Government in mooting the possibility of genetic profiling. Para 3.36 of the White Paper refers, with little or no reservation, to the possibility of producing a comprehensive map of children's key genetic markers 'or even their entire genome'.…”

Section: Genetic Testing Of Childrenmentioning

confidence: 89%

Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights?

Mclean¹,

Mason²

2006

Children's Health and Children's Rights

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“…A growing number of states and health organizations are implementing computer-based childhood immunization registries that record the immunization histories of the children being served (1). Once these histories are online, a natural next step is to process the data automatically for several related purposes, including (1) immunization forecasting (indicating which vaccine doses are due now and which should be scheduled next), (2) reminder and recall (generating lists of patients to be contacted for vaccinations which are due or past due), and (3) compliance assessment (analyzing how well the immunization status of a population of patients meets desired goals).…”

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confidence: 99%