Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake

Authors: Millington, Tristan;

Morrison, Kirsty ;

Jeffrey, Karen;

Sullivan, Christopher;

Kurdi, Amanj ;

Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi F. ;

Swallow, Ben ;

Shi, Ting ;

Shah, Syed Ahmar ;

Kerr, Steven ;

Simpson, Colin R. ;

Ritchie, Lewis;

Robertson, Chris;

Sheikh, Aziz ;

Rudan, Igor

Source: Journal of Global Health

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Abstract

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.

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Millington, T., Morrison, K., Jeffrey, K., Sullivan, C., Kurdi, A., Fagbamigbe, A., Swallow, B., Shi, T., Shah, S., Kerr, S., Simpson, C., Ritchie, L., Robertson, C., Sheikh, A. & Rudan, I. 2023, 'Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake', Journal of Global Health. https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/87763/

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