Assignment Directions:
1. Read all of the information under introduction and the links provided.
2. Go to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) website Links to an external site.and import the 2019 VAERS Symptoms CSV. file to SPSS for analysis. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html
3. Clean, organize and analyze the data set.
4. Create a table in APA format to display the results by symptom.
Detect new, unusual, or rare vaccine adverse events;
Monitor increases in known adverse events;
Identify potential patient risk factors for particular types of adverse events;
Assess the safety of newly licensed vaccines;
Determine and address possible reporting clusters (e.g., suspected localized [temporally or geographically] or product-/batch-/lot-specific adverse event reporting);
Recognize persistent safe-use problems and administration errors;
Provide a national safety monitoring system that extends to the entire general population for response to public health emergencies, such as a large-scale pandemic influenza vaccination program.
Reference: VAERS (2019). Retrieved from https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html
