Side Effects of Vaccination: A Consumer's Guide to Cause and Effect

Abstract

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This lesson is good for 0.2 CE units, with a passing grade of 70%.

Objectives

1. To describe historical examples of adverse events truly and spuriously associated with vaccination.

2. To describe a rational basis for deciding whether adverse events are causally or coincidentally linked to a medication.

3. To demonstrate how to apply this rational basis to a variety of exposure—outcome associations.

Keywords

adverse events causality immunization side effects vaccines

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