Potential use of Western Australia’s mandatory Midwives Notification System for routinely monitoring antenatal vaccine coverage | Zendy

Annette K. Regan | Zendy; Paul V. Effler | Zendy; Chloe Thomson | Zendy; Donna B. Mak | Zendy

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Potential use of Western Australia’s mandatory Midwives Notification System for routinely monitoring antenatal vaccine coverage

Author(s) -

Annette K. Regan,

Paul V. Effler,

Chloe Thomson,

Donna B. Mak

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

communicable diseases intelligence

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.616

H-Index - 6

ISSN - 2209-6051

DOI - 10.33321/cdi.2019.43.21

Subject(s) - vaccination , medicine , influenza vaccine , pediatrics , pregnancy , medical record , obstetrics , immunology , genetics , biology

Due to the high proportion of records with missing or unknown vaccination status, we observed low sensitivity and specificity of antenatal vaccination data in the MNS. However, given we did not observe differential ascertainment by vaccination status, MNS records with complete information may be reliable data source for routinely monitoring antenatal vaccine coverage.

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