Thursday, August 28, 2008

Practice-Related Issues

Immunization Standards:

• American Pharmaceutical Association:
  Guidelines for Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery
• American Society of Consultant Pharmacists:
  Guidelines for Immunization Advocacy by Consultant Pharmacists
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists:
  Technical Guidelines on Pharmacists' Role in Immunization
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics:
  Standards for Pediatric Immunization
• Infectious Disease Society of America:
  Quality Standards for Immunization
• National Vaccine Advisory Committee:
  Standards for adult immunization practices
  
• National Vaccine Advisory Committee. Adult immunization programs in nontraditional settings:
  Quality Standards and Guidance for Program Evaluation

Immunization During Pregnancy from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

National Network for Immunization Information (NNii), which includes the "Immunization NewsBriefs" triweekly email news service

100% Immunization Campaign from American Society of Consultant Pharmacists

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Improving Vaccination Coverage in children, adolescents, and adults

OSHA requirements for offering hepatitis B vaccine to certain workers (29 CFR 1910.1030(f)),including mandatory wording to document declinations of hepatitis B vaccine (29 CFR 1910.1030 Appendix A)

Law suits alleging negligence for failing to immunize, from the Immunization Action Coalition

Combination Vaccines for Childhood Immunization

From the Immunization Action Coalition:

• Summary of Rules for Childhood Immunization
• State Immunization Coordinators

Military Immunization Information

Canadian guidelines on Vaccine Storage & Conservation

CDC Guidelines for maintaining the vaccine cold chain

CDC Vaccine Management Book

Standing Orders to Increase Adult Vaccination Rates

Vaccines for Children Program (VFC)

National Immunization Registry Clearinghouse

Manual for Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Disease

Report adverse vaccine experiences to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, VAERS.

Report adverse experiences with other drugs or devices to FDA's MedWatch Program.

Report medication errors (anonymously) to the Medication Error Reporting Program. Help others avoid remaking the same mistakes.

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)

Vaccine Injury Table

Vaccine Safety Issues

ACIP Recommendations on Vaccines Containing
Thimerosal
Canadian NACI Recommendations

Institute of Medicine: Immunization Safety Reviews:

• Vaccines and Autism, May 2004
• Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism, Apr 2001
• Multiple Immunizations and Immune Dysfunction, Feb 2002
• Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders, May 2002
• Simian Virus-40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer, Oct 2002
• Thimerosal-containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, Oct 2001
• Vaccine Safety Forum: Summary of Two Workshops, 1997

Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University

Stories of unprotected people harmed by vaccine-preventable diseases

Infectious Disease Society of America's Vaccine Initiative and National Network for Immunization Information (NNii)which includes instructions on subscribing to "Immunization NewsBriefs" triweekly email news service.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices

WHO Bulletin: Vaccine Safety Special Issue

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
(VAERS), 1991-2001

Information about Vaccines and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE):

• CDC-Q&A-BSE
• CDC-MMWR-BSE
• FDA-details-BSE