Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report #2
In this report, the committee addresses several important issues: the vaccination program's need for evaluation (including program safety) and clearly defined objectives; a needed emphasis on defining preparedness against smallpox attack; CDC's communications plans; CDC's training and...
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2003
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Table of Contents:
- Current program context
- Summary of key messages
- Overarching issues: preparedness and evaluation
- Focus on preparedness
- Defining preparedness
- Concerns about program expansion and implication for preparedness
- Need for evaluation
- Programmatic issues
- Communication
- Overarching communication issues
- Communication specifics
- Communicating with the general public
- Communicating with the media
- Communicating with health care workers and others
- Training and education
- Broad issues relevant to training and education
- Specific issues in training and education
- Data to assess vaccine and program safety
- Pre-event vaccination system (PVS)
- Survey to assess common adverse reactions
- Active surveillance for serious adverse events and monitoring common adverse events
- Active surveillance for serious adverse events and monitoring common adverse events
- Active surveillance system
- Hospital smallpox vaccination monitoring system (HSVMS)
- Implications of program expansion for collection of data on adverse events
- ACIP working group on smallpox vaccine safety
- Reporting adverse events
- Compensation
- Worker's compensation
- Lack of compensation impeding program progress
- Notification about availability of compensation or lack of compensation
- Funding
- Additional data that should be gathered
- Concluding remarks.
