Travelers and travel vaccines at six health care systems in the Vaccine Safety Datalink.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studying the safety of travel vaccines poses challenges since recipients may be traveling during the risk window for adverse events and the identification of a suitable comparison group can also be difficult. The examination of traveler characteristics, travel vaccination patterns, and health care utilization using electronic health record (EHR) data can inform the feasibility of future travel vaccine safety studies.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study of health plan members in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project aged 9 months and older who had a travel-related encounter or received a travel vaccine from 2009 to 2018 was performed. Travel regions visited, travel duration, type of travel vaccine received (typhoid, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, and c

SUBMITTER: Lewin B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883331 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature