| アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: Obstetrician-gynecologists are increasingly called upon to be vaccinators as an essential part of a woman's primary and preventive health care. Despite the established safety of vaccines, vaccine adverse events may occur. A national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a well-established mechanism to track adverse events. However, we hypothesized that many obstetrician-gynecologists are naive to the role and use of VAERS. METHODS: We devised a ten-question survey to a sample of ACOG fellows to assess their knowledge and understanding of VAERS. We performed descriptive and frequency analysis for each of the questions and used one-way analysis of variance for continuous and chi-squared for categorical variables. RESULTS: Of the 1000 fellows who received the survey, 377 responded. Only one respondent answered all nine knowledge questions correctly, and 9.2% of physicians had used VAERS. Older physicians were less familiar with VAERS in general and with the specific objectives of VAERS in particular (chi(2) = 10.7, P = .005). CONCLUSIONS: Obstetrician-gynecologist familiarity with VAERS is lacking. Only when the obstetrician-gynecologist is completely knowledgeable regarding standard vaccine practices, including the availability and use of programs such as VAERS, will providers be functioning as competent and complete vaccinators. |
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| 投稿日 | 2013/10/4 |
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| 投稿者 | Eckert, L O; Anderson, B L; Gonik, B; Schulkin, J |
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| ジャーナル名 | Infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology |
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| 組織名 | Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Washington, P.O. Box 359865,;Seattle, WA 98104, USA. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24089592/ |
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