Trainees were expected to ask patients or caregivers questions and record correct responses for at least nine main questions about: danger signs, fever, ear discharge, cough, diarrhea, immunization status, HIV status of the child or mother if child's status was not known, and other symptoms.
Many hospitals have adopted standing orders for rubella non-immune women and the benefits of post-partum standing orders has been shown to be effective in increasing rubella immunization among non-immune women prior to hospital discharge [ 17].
Infants with gestational age of ≤ 32 weeks who received their first DTP-IPV-Hib immunization prior to discharge from two Edmonton Neonatal Intensive Care Units January 1 , 1996to November 30, 2000 were eligible for the study.
Infants with a gestational age of ≤ 32 weeks who received their first DTP-IPV-Hib immunization prior to discharge from two Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) at the University of Alberta and Royal Alexandra Hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta January 1 , 1996to November 30, 2000 were eligible for the study.
The study date for controls was adjusted up to seven days in either direction to avoid the control's own immunization (n = 35), discharge (n = 10), septic work up (n = 9), or surgical procedure (n = 1).
Although most of these events are of limited clinical significance, cardiorespiratory monitoring of infants who are sufficiently preterm that they are receiving their first immunization prior to hospital discharge should be considered for 72 hours post-immunization.
To evaluate study population dynamics, we compared exposure regions based on the original residential addresses retrieved from the birth certificate database to the secondary residences extracted from the immunization record and hospital discharge databases.
The immune management contained immunization information input, the inquiry of immunization information, immunization statistics, immunization-reminding and system management.
The study date for controls was equivalent to the postnatal age at time of immunization of the matched immunized infant, with the date being adjusted up to seven days in either direction to avoid the control's own immunization, discharge, septic work up (as infants unlikely to be immunized within seven days of a septic work) or surgical procedure.
The ICHIS links various sources of New York State data, including the immunization records, birth certificates, hospital discharges, and death certificates.
