Vaccine Safety Datalink
The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse effects of vaccines
.
Four large health maintenance organizations, including Kaiser Permanente, were initially recruited to provide the CDC with medical data on vaccination histories, health outcomes, and subject characteristics. The VSD database contains data compiled from surveillance on more than seven million people in the United States, including about 500,000 children from birth through age six years (2% of the U.S. population in this age group).[1]
The VSD data-sharing program is now being administered by the
Institute of Medicine
(IOM).
The
Participating healthcare organizations
The following organizations are members of the project:[6]
- Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts
- HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota[7]
- Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon
- Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
- Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado
- Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
- Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin
- Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States (Rockville, MD)
- Acumen (Burlingame, CA)
- Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN)
- OCHIN (Portland, OR)
Notes
- PMID 9164767.
- ^ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccine Safety Monitoring at CDC, archived from the original on March 6, 2015, retrieved March 11, 2015.
- PMID 14523172.
- PMID 14595043.
- PMID 17898097.
- ^ "Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. October 28, 2022. Archived from the original on January 10, 2023. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
- ^ "HealthPartners โ Top-Rated insurance and health care in Minnesota and Wisconsin". www.healthpartners.com.
External links
- NationalAcademies.org โ 'Independent Oversight of Vaccine Safety Data Program Needed To Ensure Greater Transparency and Enhance Public Trust', National Academies(February 17, 2005)
- WHO.int (pdf) โ 'The Vaccine Safety Datalink: immunization research in health maintenance organizations in the USA', R.T. Chen, F. DeStefano, R.L. Davis, L.A. Jackson, R.S. Thompson, J.P. Mullooly, S.B. Black, H.R. Shinefield, C.M. Vadheim, J.I. Ward, S.M. Marcy & the Vaccine Safety Datalink Team, World Health Organization