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AAP Grand Rounds 11:38-39 (2004)
© 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics

COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL CHILD HEALTH

Parents’ Vaccine Safety Concerns Increase

Source: Freed GL, Clark SJ, Hibbs BF, et al. Parental vaccine safety concerns: the experiences of pediatricians and family physicians. Am J Prev Med. 2004;26:11–14.[Medline]

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In 2000, investigators from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveyed a random sample of 750 pediatricians and 750 family physicians drawn from the American Medical Association’s master file to measure the extent of vaccine safety concerns among parents encountered by these physicians, and the ways in which these concerns were addressed. Each physician was sent a 29-item survey questionnaire; 1,054 responded, including 73% of pediatricians and 68% of family physicians surveyed. In the year before the survey (1999), 93% of pediatricians and 60% of family physicians reported at least 1 instance of parental vaccine refusal. Pediatricians were more likely to report an increase in vaccine refusals in the past year (18% versus 8%, P=.01), while family physicians were more likely to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stanley I. Fisch, MD, FAAP
Private Practice, Harlingen, TX

 



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