TY - JOUR
T1 - Reducing Barriers to Accessing Administrative Data on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination for Research
AU - Herder, Matthew
AU - McRae, Andrew
AU - Archambault, Patrick
AU - Fok, Patrick
AU - Wiemer, Hana
AU - Morrison, Laurie
N1 - Andrew D McRae et al, "Reducing Barriers to Accessing Administrative Data on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination for Research" (2022) 194:27 CMAJ 943.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Public trust in scientific research, especially research regarding vaccines, has proven fragile during the COVID-19 pandemic. To counter abundant misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, rigorous, ongoing evaluations of vaccine safety and effectiveness by independent Canadian researchers are important. However, researchers' efforts to conduct timely, national studies of vaccine effectiveness have been hindered by barriers to data sharing that have made it difficult to integrate patients' vaccination status into SARS-CoV-2 clinical and epidemiological studies. Here, McRae et al discuss how a risk-averse data-sharing culture has led to missed opportunities to conduct robust, timely, pan-Canadian SARS-CoV-2 clinical and vaccine effectiveness studies, and outline mechanisms for data sharing that can and should be undertaken.
AB - Public trust in scientific research, especially research regarding vaccines, has proven fragile during the COVID-19 pandemic. To counter abundant misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, rigorous, ongoing evaluations of vaccine safety and effectiveness by independent Canadian researchers are important. However, researchers' efforts to conduct timely, national studies of vaccine effectiveness have been hindered by barriers to data sharing that have made it difficult to integrate patients' vaccination status into SARS-CoV-2 clinical and epidemiological studies. Here, McRae et al discuss how a risk-averse data-sharing culture has led to missed opportunities to conduct robust, timely, pan-Canadian SARS-CoV-2 clinical and vaccine effectiveness studies, and outline mechanisms for data sharing that can and should be undertaken.
KW - Canadian Government
KW - Epidemiology & Epidemiological Methods
KW - Health Policy
KW - Health Services
KW - Infectious Diseases: COVID-19
UR - https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/1100
M3 - Article
JO - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
JF - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
ER -
