TY - JOUR
AU - Millington, Tristan
AU - Morrison, Kirsty
AU - Jeffrey, Karen
AU - Sullivan, Christopher
AU - Kurdi, Amanj
AU - Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi F.
AU - Swallow, Ben
AU - Shi, Ting
AU - Shah, Syed Ahmar
AU - Kerr, Steven
AU - Simpson, Colin R
AU - Ritchie, Sir Lewis Duthie
AU - Robertson, Chris
AU - Sheikh, Sir Aziz
AU - Rudan, Igor
PY - 2023
DA - December
TI - Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake
JO - Journal of Global Health
AB - During the work of the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) group, we reported on vaccine uptake, safety, effectiveness, and waning in specific age groups in Scotland (e.g., 12-17 years) to enable policymakers to make decisions based on evidence generated nearly in real-time [1]. At first, these imperatives appeared methodologically straightforward. However, we soon realised that the seemingly simplest task in theory – i.e., reporting the vaccine uptake – was in fact challenging in practice. We report several caveats that need to be considered when reporting vaccine uptake for a specific age-group at a national level. We also propose a simple stepwise approach for reporting the methods of calculating vaccine uptake in a specific age-group in the context of tracking a large population.
PB - International Society of Global Health
UR - https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/87763/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER