Inflammation and venous thrombosis are intertwined. Only in the recent 15 years clinical
epidemiological studies have focussed on inflammatory or infectious diseases as risk factors …

Post-marketing detection and surveillance of potential safety hazards are crucial tasks in
pharmacovigilance. To uncover such safety risks, a wide set of techniques has been …

Purpose To assess case‐only designs for surveillance with administrative databases.
Methods We reviewed literature on two designs that are observational analogs to crossover …

Background: Mexico initiated mass vaccination with the attenuated human rotavirus vaccine
(Rotarix) in 2006. This postlicensure study aimed to assess any potential temporal …

An increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following administration of the 1976
swine influenza vaccine led to a heightened focus on GBS when monovalent vaccines …

Tseng HF, Liu A, Sy L, Marcy SM, Fireman B, Weintraub E, Baggs J, Weinmann S, Baxter R,
Nordin J, Daley MF, Jackson L, Jacobsen SJ, for the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Team …

Active medical product monitoring systems, such as the Sentinel System, will utilize
electronic healthcare data captured during routine health care. Safety signals that arise from …

In immunization safety research, individuals are considered at risk for the development of
certain adverse events following immunization (AEFI) within a specific period of time referred …

ABSTRACT Purpose The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emerging Infections
Program implemented active, population‐based surveillance for Guillain–Barré syndrome …

Background Case-only designs have been used since late 1980's. In these, as opposed to
case-control or cohort studies for instance, only cases are required and are self-controlled …