CDC helps hospitals monitor smallpox vaccinations
Emergency Management Alert, February 26, 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 18 began a voluntary, Internet-based program to help hospitals monitor and track health care workers who receive smallpox vaccinations.
The Hospital Smallpox Vaccination Monitoring System records daily assessments of recently vaccinated health care workers, who should be seen daily for 21 to 28 days following vaccination. Hospitals should keep track of the daily assessment of the vaccination site, symptoms reported by the worker, vaccine take, determination of fitness for duty, and work days lost.
The program is open to hospitals or other vaccine monitoring sites that have designated health care response teams and that provide a secure mechanism for data transfer between facilities and the CDC. For more information on how to enroll, visit http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/hsvms/
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