A multi-site feasibility study to assess fever and wheezing in children after influenza vaccines using text messaging.

CONCLUSIONS: Text messaging can provide information about pediatric post-vaccination fever and wheezing and was viewed positively by parents. It could be a helpful tool for rapid vaccine safety monitoring during a pandemic or other emergency vaccination program. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02295007. PMID: 29089191 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Vaccine - October 28, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Stockwell MS, Marchant CD, Wodi AP, Barnett ED, Broder KR, Jakob K, Lewis P, Kattan M, Rezendes AM, Barrett A, Sharma D, Fernandez N, LaRussa P Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research