Suitability of databases in the Asia-Pacific for collaborative monitoring of vaccine safety.
Katherine M DuszynskiJames H StarkCatherine CohetWan-Ting HuangJu Young ShinEdward Chia-Cheng LaiKenneth Keng Cheung ManNam-Kyong ChoiAlena KhromavaTomomi KimuraKui HuangSawaeng WatcharathanakijSonali KochharRobert T ChenNicole L PrattPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2021)
Variation in vaccine data availability, complexities in data access including, governance and data release approval procedures, together with requirement for data linkage for outcome information, all contribute to the challenges in building a distributed network for vaccine safety assessment in the Asia-Pacific and globally. Common data models (CDMs) may help expedite vaccine safety research across the region.